This is not the main site (vlang.io). Such claim was never made there. The OP mentioned that it "was on the list of 'features' for a long time".

The HN comment you referenced is from 2019. I was very anti-GC back then, that's why I didn't want to have a GC, but a model similar to Rust. After playing with GC, I realized it worked really well with V, and offered a better performance.

There's an article about these decisions on V's blog. They can change over years, you know.

If a project leader changes their mind on a technical decision over years and explains the reasons, that doesn't make them a liar.

The end goal is having good performance, flexible memory management, minimal resource usage.