- The bad press was because the initial public release on GitHub did not implement most of the things seemed like they're implemented, (Rust like memory safety etc.)
- Over time it actually saw contributions from a lot of people and is kind of decent now, be it not as polished as Go, Rust, D etc.
- It is super easy to use, so kind of attracts an audience.
The bad press was because after some people tried to call them out for not shipping features that were claimed in the release, those people were banned from further contribution/commenting on github.
Disagree with the first point. A lot of the so-called "bad press" came very directly from competitors. To the extent that it looked like they were trying to snuff out a rising new language or were arguably engaging in slander, because it seemingly was a threat to the popularity of their own creations.
Any just released language (talking about when it came out back in 2019), is not going to be polished. That should be common sense. I've never seen a first release alpha of any language be polished or not have have things in a state of partial implementation. 0.1 is not 1.0.
> Over time it actually saw contributions from a lot of people and is kind of decent now
True. At present, they have 846 contributors and over 2,300 forks on GitHub.
> It is super easy to use, so kind of attracts an audience.
Agree. Ease of use is one of its attractive features. Very much geared towards getting people started, even newbies to programming, and doing useful things.
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It was nice to use when I tried to dabble with it.
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- The bad press was because the initial public release on GitHub did not implement most of the things seemed like they're implemented, (Rust like memory safety etc.)
- Over time it actually saw contributions from a lot of people and is kind of decent now, be it not as polished as Go, Rust, D etc.
- It is super easy to use, so kind of attracts an audience.
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Any just released language (talking about when it came out back in 2019), is not going to be polished. That should be common sense. I've never seen a first release alpha of any language be polished or not have have things in a state of partial implementation. 0.1 is not 1.0.
> Over time it actually saw contributions from a lot of people and is kind of decent now
True. At present, they have 846 contributors and over 2,300 forks on GitHub.
> It is super easy to use, so kind of attracts an audience.
Agree. Ease of use is one of its attractive features. Very much geared towards getting people started, even newbies to programming, and doing useful things.
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-mzTDUpAI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-mzTDUpAI
10k+ bugs fixed, only ~40 open github issues.
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