It's still strange. What about Github stars? Either the HN crowd is very biased or we have been ignorant or V enthusiasts do not show up here often. Most of the latest system programming language discussions and post here revolve around Rust, C, Go with some sympathy for Nim, Zig, Crystal and others.
A quick lookup on star ranking gives surprising results for V:
* Go 76.5k
* Rust 48.2k
* V 18.5k (??)
* Crystal 15.2k
* Nim 9.9k
* Zig 6.6k
V got a lot of hype last year, and then a lot more criticism here on HN. I suspect that's a reason it's not been promoted much on this site. People who saw it coming out last year (like me) mostly ignore it, and the people interested in it found other places to discuss it without the criticism.
> Most of the latest system programming language discussions and post here revolve around Rust, C, Go with some sympathy for Nim, Zig, Crystal and others.
Well I've got to give it to V for rolling without LLVM and forking from Golang's compiler, unlike Rust, Crystal and Zig.
There is an indeed language bias and a ton of shillers going on here.
A quick lookup on star ranking gives surprising results for V: * Go 76.5k * Rust 48.2k * V 18.5k (??) * Crystal 15.2k * Nim 9.9k * Zig 6.6k