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Re:The V Programming Language is open source by edgeyboy on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:42PM (#20251344)
After going through the source code, I can tell for sure that it's an insecure C transpiler.

- Most things call just out to C.

- A lot of examples don't even compile.

- Some things use CLI curl or mkdir, this is /INCREDIBLY/ insecure.

- Many things are unimplemented.

- Dev banned me off org when I opened issues about these and deleted issues. I was unnecessarily rude on some which I apologize for, but deleting them and calling me a troll was uncalled for.

I wrote about them here: https://twitter.com/boy_edgey/status/1142504580074344448 (thread)

Re:The V Programming Language is open source by tasty_freeze on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:21PM (#20251534)
I have to agree from the snippets of your reports, the tone of those reports were needlessly antagonistic and superior.

Starting a report with "You idiot" or "Oh god this is a fucking goldmine" should get you banned, even if the issue you are reporting is real. Such reports aren't trying to contribute to the project; they are trying to boost the reporter.

Re:The V Programming Language is open source by edgeyboy on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:22PM (#20251540)
I didn't ever say "Oh god this is a fucking goldmine". That was a reply.
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by SolarNet on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:21PM (#20251539)
Well you were calling him an idiot in the issues and being overall aggressive. I would ban you too (but I'd keep the issues after some editing).
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by edgeyboy on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:23PM (#20251544)
I apologize for criticizing the person and not the project, but again, the fact that he deleted the issues is unreasonable.
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by drusepth on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:52PM (#20251667)
I, too, would delete needlessly aggressive issues on my open source projects if I didn't end up editing them to make them actually usable. Either way, it'd definitely be a ban so the user wouldn't edit them back or escalate with more aggression in other issues.
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by amedvednikov on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:55PM (#20251908)
Besides on many of those you were simply wrong like with rand.next() returning 0 and missing _lin.v files.
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by coldtea on Saturday June 22, 2019 @06:04PM (#20251956)
>I was unnecessarily rude on some which I apologize for, but deleting them and calling me a troll was uncalled for.

I wouldn't say troll, but you still come out as rude-ish in this comment.

"- Some things use CLI curl or mkdir, this is /INCREDIBLY/ insecure."

Not anymore than tons of established projects that use the same...

Re:The V Programming Language is open source by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:56PM (#20252410)
What's insecure about curl and mkdir?
Re:The V Programming Language is open source by edgeyboy on Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:38AM (#20253638)
They're called through os.system.

Say that you have a website that relies on downloading content from URLs supplied by users. A user can send a "specially constructed" URL ("anything;commandgoeshere") and run any command they'd like on your server.

Re:The V Programming Language is open source by yccheok on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:37AM (#20261028)
I would be surprised if you're not banned, for personal attack the author.