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Which means you are conceiving a strawman to mock.

The point is “no side effects other than IO” is a useful observation to make about how a language feels to use and the kinds of programs it encourages one to write.

Whether V is a good example of such a language I’ve no idea.

The criticism re: purity is silly. It can still be useful to design a language that is “mostly pure” because you’re mostly not trying to fuck your self over. For example OCaml is “mostly pure” and it’s tremendously beneficial in terms of writing correct software, regardless of the IO escape hatch or the ‘a ref explicit mutability etc.

(I don’t care for V one way or the other though, and most of the results in the post are clearly bad, I just find this particular point to be absurd).