V (programming language) Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Go Is a Well-Designed Language

  I think V [1] is what Go should’ve been. Simple, compiles fast, integrated language tooling, in fact quite similar to Go, but without all the dumb design decisions. Unlike Go, it has sum types, enums, immutable-by-default variables, option/result types, various other goodies and the syntax for for loops actually makes sense. It’s a shame that the compiler is quite buggy, but hopefully that’s going to improve. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Mantis - new file log driver

  Mantis is a type-safe web framework written in V that emphasizes explicit, magic-free code. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Mantis, a web framework written in V

  For development, V offers both an interpreter and watch mode, combining the convenience of scripting languages with the type safety and performance of compiled languages. It even includes built-in channel-compatible concurrency - truly the best of both worlds. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

  What is quite interesting (after looking at their documentation), is that V lang[1] has all that is mentioned: `?`[2], `or`[2], sum types[4], and can return multiple values[5]. [1]: https://vlang.io/ [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#optionresult-types-and-error-handling [4]: - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Huly – Open-Source All-in-One Project Management Platform

  They are working on the next generation of Hulu in Zig. However, no final decision has been made since they are also sponsoring V (https://vlang.io) and Odin (https://odin-lang.org) :). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• S3 Is Showing Its Age

  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 / 10 months ago

• So We've Got a Memory Leak

  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 / 11 months ago

• 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 / about 1 year 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 / over 1 year 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: over 1 year ago

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

  I discovered VLang today. It's an interesting project. Source: over 1 year 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: almost 2 years 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: almost 2 years 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 / almost 2 years 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 / almost 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

• New programming languages in 2023

  There was this language V which I heard came out recently. Source: about 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago