> My problem here is one of trust.

The "trust" argument appears disingenuous. There is a difference between a bias preference or supporting another language, versus not trusting.

Anybody who took the time to actually use the language and study them on GitHub, would see they are on a tremendous development pace where they have been doing weekly releases for years (https://github.com/vlang/v/releases). That's called consistency. Usually the hallmark of reliability, which can instill trust.

On GitHub (https://github.com/vlang), you can see the activity of not only V, but many of the related projects such as vc, vinix, gitly, vls, vab, etc...

> The people behind the language have made wild claims that are objectively false.
> It is understandable, what I'm asking them is to be clear and honest about that.

Again, this is quite a distorted take, which many might say is clouded by bias. V's GitHub (https://github.com/vlang) very accurately shows the state and activity of the programming language. There are no "wild claims" on V's GitHub, other than clear and precise data, activity, and releases.

In regards to V's web page (https://vlang.io/), they describe the language relatively accurately, in addition to promotion. No different to what other languages do. For example, Nim describes itself as "efficient, expressive, elegant". Really? Is that a "wild claim" too or simple self promotion?

For greater clarity, it's quite simple to click the link to the documentation on V's web page (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md), which goes over the features and capabilities of the language more precisely. There is no "wild claims" in their documentation, other than the usual need for some updates here and there, for a language in alpha.

If anything, the "wild claim" is to keep saying or pretending V is vaporware, as if it doesn't exist, after more than 84 releases (they just had a new one), YouTube videos, ebooks, documentation, etc...

> That is my issue with it. They have been called out for it multiple times. The first time I discovered V was in 2019...

V was debatably being called out by advocates and supporters of other competing programming languages before they could even release an alpha on GitHub (mid 2019).

Then the developers were getting dragged, as if the just released alpha was supposed to be a finished product. And if you read into the various back and forth, there appeared to be elements of jealousy and odd focus over them having Patreon support or it being equivalent to that of their preferred language. That's more indicative of "cat fighting" between languages and disguised pettiness.

> I think you're being a bit too paranoid here. The vast majority of new languages fail without anyone trying to make them fail. Especially these days in the "C/C++ replacement" niche. There's at least Ada, Rust, D, Zig, Go, Nim, Odin, Myrddin, ATS, Swift. There are probably way more than I forgot.

Not being paranoid, so much as calling it as I see it. There is a lot of bias and competitiveness between languages. So, when assessing the viability of a language, its best to see through some of what is being said.

True, many languages and projects have failed. This then demonstrates that V's present weekly release schedule makes them even more credible. They are demonstrating that they can independently stand with Rust, Go, Zig, and Nim as a useful language.