Not a hater, but what was delivered was a 4K line parser and some wrapper functions over the C standard library. I know the author has said he’s got a lot of TODO work, and the source code says as much, but as a compiler writer myself, the current state of this is maybe a step ahead of an undergrad final project in imperative language implementation. It has some of the buzzwords of languages as of late, like Rust and Go, but it’s quick to see that the stated features are quite shallow (e.g., no participation of an advanced runtime like Go, or an advanced compiler like Rust’s).

There was a lot of promises. Give people time to test it.

Now that the release is out, it's actually worse than we expected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251344

Can you please follow the admonition at the top? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251393

My apologies, I'll be more careful, and more factual.