My suspicion is that people object to calling this persons' claims essentially a lie, which is just the truth. It is dishonest to use the performance numbers of an incomplete project while listing the features of the complete project, which will certainly decrease performance. The website is replete with obviously absurd claims, like a completely baseless claim about throughput that assumes compile time is linear in code size.

But what's actually pathetic in this affair is the anguish and upset of a bunch of internet nerds over a project that has received, in its 3 months of existence, less than $2500 USD. This is peanuts, but everyone is outraged over a "scam" because the real scam is open source getting a bunch of people to work for free, hoping at a chance of getting peanuts like this.

Please refrain from personal insults and take the time to read the guidelines before commenting further.

(not judging about that case here)

If you do a search in these comments for people who have actually given him money, I think you'll find that none of us have done so under the pretense that all the features he listed on the website are finished.

We're also not "buying" anything. We're supporting a developer who is writing a language we would like to one day use. How else is it going to get written? Do we expect somebody to toil away in obscurity for no pay for 5+ years first?

I would consider it money well spent even if he never finishes it. I'm voting for the language I want with my wallet.

Yes, this opens me up to making me feel like a sucker if he is a scam artist. But, he's delivered things in the past and he's delivered things even since the last conversation. Most frauds don't ship.

Why is it so many people online can't admit when they're wrong? "I'm sorry. I was wrong." Is that really so hard to type?

> You have something to say?

Do you? Nobody buys your "clever" attempts to be "sneaky." You called this project author a liar. Period.

And then I quoted exactly where you called Alex a liar. Stop lying. Stop trying to be clever. You're not pulling it off.

Where?

This is my quote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252153

And your quote of me accusing "alex" of lying?

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-tea...

Surely people would have been a bit pissed if a strange project got backers, but the problem here was snake oil PR.

"It's amazing, better than anything else, just give me a bit of money and I'll give it to you when it's finished"