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Re:Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Pytho... by super_flanker on Thursday November 10, 2022 @08:01PM (#33556058)
Congratulations! Vlang warriors have successfully pushed a potential new user away from Vlang again. One could say that you and tozen have done more reputation damage then Alex's over-promise/under-deliver saga.

By now most of the HN know the reality of Vlang, and just ignore all the post/comments about it. Before Vlang warriors go bananas, don't bother responding, this is my last comment on vlang.

For new users: Vlang has constantly over promised and under delivered, most of the features they advertise don't work or works in a very limited scope. Not very old article dissecting their feature list: * Article: https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html * HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31793554

Re:Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Pytho... by Tozen on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:43PM (#33557087)
> ...successfully pushed a potential new user away...

1) You are "projecting", what is your purpose and agenda.

That is your intent, as an obvious troll (who masquerades as a Rust advocate), that probably has multiple accounts or working in a concerted effort from an organization of a competing language.

2) Your agenda is very clear.

It is mainly attacks, flames, and unloading of spam on any posts or threads which mention or are concerning Vlang.

3) Your troll account should have been banned a while ago.

All of this is very clear by your disruptive flame war comment history, for all to see.

> Vlang warriors...

So PufPufPuf and jonathanstrange are also "Vlang warriors", for just casually mentioning and saying something positive about Vlang on a thread about it and multiple languages?

What actually is happening, is the mere mention of Vlang can cause various rivals and competitors to engage with troll accounts to spam the name of their competing language (in this case Zig) and unload massive amounts of misinformation, propaganda, lies, and negative disruption on threads.

Notice how it is never initiated in the opposite direction. It is nearly always advocates of specific rival languages doing this, though they kind of and sloppily try to hide their affiliation, but often slip up as apparently they can't help themselves. Their activity consists of attacking or bashing Vlang (to include spamming the same negative propaganda links), when it is positively mentioned. This is very clear from HN's post history.

To include, this spamming or trolling activity by various evangelists or paid advocates of a certain language has gone over the top on the HN site, and is now on the radar of moderators (who have mentioning it).

Re:Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Pytho... by dang on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:52PM (#33578462)
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. Regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

You did it a whole bunch in this thread, unfortunately. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re:Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Pytho... by 10241024 on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:50AM (#33559170)
> Vlang has constantly over promised and under delivered, most of the features they advertise don't work or works in a very limited scope.

This is the 3rd time in this thread this claim is getting repeated. From my previous comment:

"V has an online playground, a package manager, hot code reloading and a REPL whereas Zig doesn't even though Zig is twice as old."

If you can't provide examples of undelivered features, I'm going to have to say you're spreading lies.

Also literally in the HN thread you shared the author of V refuted the claims from the article.

Re:Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Pytho... by dang on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:51PM (#33578450)
We don't allow single-purpose accounts on HN, nor (to widen the scope slightly) accounts that are primarily obsessed with one agenda. That's incompatible with intellectual curiosity, which is the thing this site exists for.

Since your account seems clearly in that category, I need to ask you to stop posting about this, not just now but in the future. That's not taking a side about Vlang (I have no idea!) - it's just about the intended use of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html