The V Programming Language 0.4
It has been over 4 years since I&#x27;ve commented on the V language proper. I still think Alex need to greatly improve his public relation skills, but otherwise the only thing matter is that the language is still alive after years. It took way longer than the original claim (which again is a PR issue) but it is now a language that has advertised features and may fill some niche. I&#x27;d like to applaud the perseverance.<p>I don&#x27;t know about a long-term plan, but it seems that V will now need one if there isn&#x27;t already one. Many languages start out fresh and either die out (metaphorically) or get crushed on their own features. Planning seems to be necessary to avoid either fates, and yet is not sufficient to guarantee survival. I personally witnessed this from D firsthand back when a stdlib divide was threatening its future, and believe every successful language author need to answer this question (for example, Rust would say the coevolution with Servo was massively beneficial). So Alex---or other core developers if any---, do you have any thoughts on this?