That's true for a vast majority of devs, but not for everyone. There are people like Jon Blow and projects like https://vlang.io. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

V uses a GC by default, but it's easily disabled per function/module via the @[manualfree] attribute or for the entire project via `v -gc none` https://vlang.io. - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

The creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they've gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website (https://vlang.io) a beer-money level Patreon following and some corporate partnerships/sponsors. However have experienced some pretty brutal takedowns over the years, with some of the bolder claims about the language/compiler being exposed as being. A word I... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Fingers crossed for vlang[0]. It's like golang with better types and more syntactic sugar. Feels like a proper upgrade from Python. I really hope they succeed. [0]: https://vlang.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

And again a No true Scotsman. If that's the kind of attitude you have towards languages, you'll appreciate V infinitely more than you might be appreciating Rust. After all, it offers better solutions than Rust, like autofree, they just aren't there yet :). Source: 11 months ago

I can’t believe trillian is still a thing. What a blast from the past. Thanks for that. Source: over 1 year ago

Yeah I think that was a long time ago. These days I think it's just another IM: https://trillian.im/. Source: over 1 year ago

You might look at https://trillian.im but I think corporate changes have harmed them as well. Source: over 1 year ago

Two decades ago I used trillian and mirianda for all the popular messaging protocols, https://trillian.im/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Trillian supports XMPP and seems like it would meet your requirements. Source: almost 3 years ago