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Comment by Tozen

In both the review itself and in V's documentation, from which the example came, it states that autofree is still WIP. It's arguably disingenuous to pretend otherwise or present unintended usage.

The normal "day-to-day" situation would be to have the GC on or as fallback, and to do otherwise (like -gc none or -prealloc), one should know what they are doing or be prepared to deal with such issues.

Those parts of the review, considered relevant in normal usage were resolved:

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14803

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14787

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14786

But even beyond that, the intent of the so-called review was arguably malevolent. It was not done in good faith, to be helpful to the developers or community, but done to spur on drama (thus adding the vaporware link and spamming it) and knowingly looking for ways to bash an alpha version of the language.

parent Tozen 3 years ago

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