As you can see the website claimed that its compiler is "200x faster" than C compilers, while neglecting to mention that it merely translates V code to C, so you still have to
run a C compiler.
"400 KB compiler with zero dependencies" (apart from a C compiler and libc).
"As fast as C" - a lie.
Apart from deceptive marketing, there were serious issues with the code quality of the compiler:
It wasn't always like this. Back in 2019, its website looked like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190303184805/https://vlang.io/
As you can see the website claimed that its compiler is "200x faster" than C compilers, while neglecting to mention that it merely translates V code to C, so you still have to run a C compiler.
"400 KB compiler with zero dependencies" (apart from a C compiler and libc).
"As fast as C" - a lie.
Apart from deceptive marketing, there were serious issues with the code quality of the compiler:
https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/d32e538073e55c603992b5b65ebc...