V (programming language) Reviews and details

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• V Language Review (2023)

  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 / 2 months ago

• Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python

  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 / 6 months ago

• Ah, Go, with its simple and straightforward syntax, where things just make sense (most of the time, before generics were added)

  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: 10 months ago

• Why is Vlang's autofree model not more widely used?

  I discovered VLang today. It's an interesting project. Source: 10 months ago

• Seed7 version 2023-05-29 released on GitHub and SF

  According to their own benchmarks, Seed7 can run faster than C (it compiles to C, but it's entirely possible the emited code is better optimized than a human could write directly in C)... It doesn't have a GC BUT manages memory automatically (I didn't really follow the explanation in the FAQ, something about automatically freeing variables that go out of scope and keeping only one reference around?)... that's like... Source: 11 months ago

• Eggcellent Adventure - announcement

  Help V programming language to gain more popularity and show to game development community that this is a good language for game development. Source: 11 months ago

• Testing Vlang, Rust and Zig and more!

  V caught my eye straight away, it feels like a go mixed with Rust. Vlang if you want to look a bit more in depth. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• What makes you enjoy Go lang?

  Interestingly, Vlang (https://vlang.io/) has the .filter(), .map(), etc... And addresses Nil/Null (relegating it to unsafe). Error handling is done differently, and this tends towards a programmer's preferences. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Why Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust – Vercel

  You can actually try to have a magic language which "does not ignore decades of PL research" but you are likely to get either something broken or a project that is likely not going to release in our lifetime. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Possible? Faster than C, simpler than Python, safer than Rust

  I’m pretty optimistic about V, it so far has great language ergonomics, solid performance, and memory safety through its “autofree” memory feature flag. https://vlang.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Whatever happened to Ruby?

  Rust is increasingly beginning to be integrated into Linux Kernel Modules, Android, and even Ruby's new YJIT. C served it's purpose, but it should not be used anymore due to all of the security vulnerabilities it has allowed over the decades. Use Go, Rust, Crystal, Nim, Zig (no GC), or even V (no GC) instead, literally anything besides C/C++. If you still insist on continuing to use C/C++ for new projects, you are... Source: about 1 year ago

• New programming languages in 2023

  There was this language V which I heard came out recently. Source: about 1 year ago

• Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and violating Code of Conduct

  May be irrelevant here but I stumbled across a new programming langauge called V [1] that is heavily inspired by Go and does not rely on LLVM rather directly generates C. Operating system is already a spyware and next arms race is for everyone to arm their compilers. Good going, product managers. [1] https://vlang.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Trying out V lang, a simple & fast language

  A few days ago, I found out about this new programming language V. On their webpage they claim that it is simple, fast, safe and compiled. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Why is Zig so much more successful than Crystal and Nim?

  You can check out V (https://vlang.io/). It's still a pre-v1.0 language but it's built on solid ideas (e.g. Go-like concurrency, Lobster-like memory management). Comparison with Go:. Source: over 1 year ago

• C++ vs. Rust Build Times

  Would love to hear your opinion about V too especially since one of its main selling points is fast build times: https://vlang.io/#:~:text=Small%20and%20easy%20to%20build%20compiler. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Why the C Programming Language Still Runs the World

  Good point. This is why newer programming languages like; Vlang (https://vlang.io/), Dlang, Odin, etc... Are best served by having strong interop with C (to and from). C has become more like a protocol that they need/should speak, and the better they are at it, the better off their users are. Source: over 1 year ago

• Relive: 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly

  Or Vlang (https://vlang.io/), which can compile to C, and has a C2V transpiler. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming

  Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking... Source: over 1 year ago

• New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors

  I think something like V is what you're looking for: https://vlang.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• some programming languages at a glance

  Neat language in early development, with a neat new idea, precomputing garbage collection. The compiler generates and places free() commands as needed, eliminating the need for manual memory management or expensive gc. I’m not advertising, I just think the idea is neat. It would be great if the technology could be ported to other languages as well! The language’s website. Source: over 1 year ago