to be fair, Slava Pestov appears to be one of those legendary 100x programmers, or perhaps a pseudonym for a group like Nicolas Bourbaki, or some form of non-human being.

As someone who does a lot of Go, glancing over Factor's syntax in your links makes my eyes glaze over. I'm sure it's perfectly understandable if you take the time to learn it, but languages like Go and Python have the benefit of being nearly immediately understandable for anyone with prior experience

I'm not sure what point you intend, since Factor has never been popular. No offense intended to the authors and no shade intended, but I think that's pretty clearly the case.

There are other not-popular languages that build up from scratch. I'd hesitate to go too crazy in assigning causality to this particular characteristic. Being stuck to an existing ecosystem has disadvantages too. But it's not a counterexample to the statement you quoted.

I cannot get into specifics right now (should sleep soon), but Zig code is not as simple as C is, I would say. If you are fine with it, then you should be OK. All the "@..." stuff on top, it is kinda meh to me. Zig does not make me want to replace C with it.

I'm not who you were asking, but my only experiences with vlang was years ago when its marketing was making false claims about what its capabilities were, while pretending to be an already production-ready language. This in turn harbored tons of distrust about any of its promises of future capabilities too.

At this point, I don't think it matters if the V programming language has actually fixed all of those issues and its marketing is completely truthful now. The language's perception is tainted, and it'll take a herculean effort to fix that.

This sort of stuff: https://justinas.org/the-bizarre-world-of-v

Everytime this is posted someone says it's a vaporware and/or a scam. I've never looked into it myself so i don't know.

That's defamation. Above that, these false characterizations look to be perpetuated by direct competitors of V, engaging in very dirty tactics.

The leadership of competing languages should be showing more ethical integrity and professionalism, to reduce high levels of toxicity coming from their communities.

A ton of these new system languages can't seem to let go of exceptions (and/or null), which is increasingly being shown to be bad design. I would wager good money that a significant majority of those who disagree have not used exceptionless languages in anger.

Personally, I would learn any of them for a job - but not for joy. Exceptions subtract joy.

V is definitely worth looking at (but I have found the time yet).

Can you elaborate on both points?

I tried it a few months ago and it generally worked fine, although it had rough edges.