I created the open-source language Vale [0] and this hits home for me

Question about Vale's positioning, where does it exist relative to Zig and Nim? At a brief glance Vale seems closed to C than C++, which seems to put it in some of the same use cases as Zig, but perhaps a bit higher level. Is that an accurate assessment?

Good for you, but I don't quite get the reasoning. I wouldn't expect any guarantee that Google will fund work on an experimental open source project indefinitely, or to pay for work they no longer care about. But why not accept funding on a temporary basis? When they get bored with the experiment and funding dries up, or they want to go in a direction you don't like, the source is out there and you could keep going on your own.

I work for Google now on an open source project, and have worked on open source language projects for them before. This is just not how things happen. At all. There's a lot of fear in our post about things that _could_ happen, but haven't actually happened in Google's history, or aren't unique to corporate sponsorship. > 1. I wouldn't be able to refuse if they told me to add tracking, analytics, AI "learning", or lock-in mechanisms. Google just doesn't do this with OSS projects. I've never seen on mine, or heard about it in others, or heard news of problems. I did work near a CLI that sent some usage analytics back (so they could see crash reports, etc) and some people complained, and it was removed. It was never nefarious and the idea that Google is trying to make better ad profiles or somesuch via OSS projects is frankly ludicrous. > 2. If at any point they thought that Vale competed w…

I find myself only replying to people who disagree with me. That is sad. I've added Vale to my blog post. It looks very interesting. Congratulations on taking a stand for what you believe in.

First time I've seriously looked at Vale. Looks pretty great. One thing that I didn't see in the guide, probably toward the end (maybe in "Patterns") is some discussion about error handling.