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…20X more issues. Refs: [1]: https://vlang.veery.blog/ (blog link at top of the vlang.io site) [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/categories/blog (blog link on left side of github.com/vlang/v/discussions) [3]:…

comment by baranul · 2026-10-07 · in The bizarre world of the V Programming Language

…[4]: https://github.com/vlang/ripgrep.v [5]: https://codefreelance.net/apps/vlang.html [6]: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/goroutines [7]: https://github.com/alibaba/PhotonLibOS [8]: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-v-langu…

comment by baranul · 2026-09-28 · in V Language Review (2023)

If I go to the vlang releases page, I see literally hundreds of releases https://github.com/vlang/v/releases They haven't had a stable 1.0 release yet, but they've had many pre-1.0 releases. It's not some personal experiment that's been…

comment by wk_end · 2026-09-17 · in Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

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V0.5.2 is out with 1400 fixes including SOA, ownership, and pure V GC

story by valera228 · 2026-07-22 · 0 comments

…Golang alternative languages. Solod has a lot of competition (from most to least GitHub stars): 1) https://github.com/vlang/v (Vlang) 2) https://github.com/odin-lang/odin (Odin) 3) https://github.com/goplus/xgo (Xgo, formerly Goplus) 4)…

comment by baranul · 2026-05-07 · in Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop

https://github.com/vlang/v

comment by sixthDot · 2026-04-20 · in GitHub's fake star economy

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Vlang 0.5

story by seeg · 2026-02-06 · 0 comments

…backends, in addition to native (to be focused on from 0.6); C, JavaScript, WASM, etc... [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7849

comment by baranul · 2026-01-14 · in Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

…version 0.5 (2 weeks ago from this post), so obviously that statement is mistaken. [1] vlang.io [2] https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ROADMAP.md (vlang's roadmap)

comment by baranul · 2026-01-13 · in VLang 0.5 Released

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VLang 0.5 Released

story by arunc · 2026-01-07 · 3 comments

…V (Vlang) went to 0.5.0 (December 31st) and C3 is 0.7.8 (December 6th) in 2025 (last month). [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/releases/tag/0.5 [2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/releases/tag/v0.7.8

comment by baranul · 2026-01-06 · in Zig programming language 0.6.0 release notes

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V programming language version 0.5 released

story by hggh · 2026-01-01 · 0 comments

…GC". > Regarding the details, here is a pretty informative github discussion thread on same topic: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/17419 I did see that! Unfortunately it doesn't really move the needle on anything I said earlier. It…

comment by aw1621107 · 2025-12-22 · in Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

…Regarding the details, here is a pretty informative github discussion thread on same topic: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/17419 It is also accompanied with a demo video (pretty convincing in case you would like to watch). V-lang…

comment by freakynit · 2025-12-22 · in Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

…out as "memory safety without GC" to me. [0]: https://docs.vlang.io/memory-management.html [1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/builtin/prealloc...

comment by aw1621107 · 2025-12-22 · in Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

…As Vlang is 75% similar, it's also easy to learn and retains the high readability. [1]: vlang.io [2]: github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md

comment by baranul · 2025-12-02 · in Several core problems with Rust

Yes. [0] https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/Makefile#L18

comment by shakna · 2025-10-04 · in Zig builds are getting faster

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V Programming Language version 0.4.12 released

story by hggh · 2025-09-20 · 0 comments

…https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:V_(Vlang) [2] https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang (2025) [3] https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples

comment by baranul · 2025-09-03 · in The V Programming Language

…V code into an AST, then it walks the AST and tries to generate an equivalent C code on the fly: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/v/gen/c/match.v How a proper compiler should work (and how they actually do from what I've seen),…

comment by torginus · 2025-08-31 · in My Foray into Vlang

…scope, and frees them at the end of scope. (to be fair, autofree seems to have been deprioritised) https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/v/gen/c/autofree... While it works in some cases (including the original critical post where it…

comment by torginus · 2025-08-31 · in My Foray into Vlang

…appear to be waiting for the language to become a bit mature. [1] https://github.com/vlang/go2v [2] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7849

comment by baranul · 2025-06-16 · in Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13

…bounds checking, and so on. Here's a discussion of vlang's implementation of coroutine https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/11582 Until recently, vlang has not supported coroutines very well The syntax of nature is different from golang.…

comment by hualaka · 2025-06-01 · in Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM

Another language with such features, including sumtypes, is V (Vlang)[1]. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#sum-types

comment by baranul · 2025-05-07 · in Migrating away from Rust

…a compiler flag and wasn't actually implemented, even though the author claimed that it was. [0] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/24271 [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/23509

comment by shakna · 2025-04-27 · in Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?

…to V. It is quite popular at GitHub with over 36.2k stars, 2.2k forks, and 775 contributors. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

comment by baranul · 2025-03-26 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

…to users, would go a long way towards earning back the trust the project lacks. Good luck! [1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/17122#discussioncomme...

comment by imiric · 2025-03-25 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

…10x that amount who don't bother and move on. [1]: https://justinas.org/the-bizarre-world-of-v [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/23509

comment by imiric · 2025-03-24 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

…has a big discussion called "What don't you like about V / what would you like to be changed?" https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610 What exactly do you think only looks good on paper?

comment by amedvednikov · 2025-03-24 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

The network library doesn't use curl: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/net

comment by amedvednikov · 2025-03-24 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

There are prebuilt packages you can install from the home page and from the github repo. For example https://github.com/vlang/v/releases/latest/download/v_linux....

comment by amedvednikov · 2025-03-24 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

…of interesting hobby projects using it. I'd recommend taking a look at the the examples here: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples I think the language has a lot of potential.

comment by fayten · 2025-03-24 · in TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

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Vlang 0.4.1 Released

story by fork-bomber · 2025-03-20 · 0 comments

We recently migrated from YAML CI to VSH as well: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ci/linux_ci.vsh

comment by amedvednikov · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…weird that this is promoted so much with Zig, as if other languages don't have a lot of this. [1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#compile-t...

comment by baranul · 2025-01-12 · in Zig's comptime is bonkers good

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Vlang: 12x speed up achieved using parallel C back end's production builds

story by fork-bomber · 2025-01-02 · 0 comments

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V -prod is now 12 times faster on a 14 core CPU due to parallelization

story by amedvednikov · 2024-12-19 · 0 comments

…`?`[2], `or`[2], sum types[3], and can return multiple values[4]. [1]: https://vlang.io/ [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#optionres... [3]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#sum-types [4]:…

comment by baranul · 2024-11-28 · in Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

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V programming language – Releases 0.4.7

story by lavren1974 · 2024-07-26 · 0 comments

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V0.4.5 Is Out

story by todsacerdoti · 2024-03-20 · 0 comments

…comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism. Example. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

comment by baranul · 2024-03-01 · in V Language Review (2023)

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues 873 open, 7275 closed. The ratio is important. What is it for the ones you listed?

comment by delian66 · 2024-02-25 · in V Language Review (2023)

…the authors don't want this kind of feedback they can just say front-and-centre (or on their FAQ @ https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/FAQ ) "this is a toy" or "this is pre-alpha" or "this is for research purposes". There are plenty of…

comment by smcl · 2024-02-24 · in V Language Review (2023)

…is willing to amend mistakes. [0]: prealloc.c.v is barely over 100 lines long and quite manageable, https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/builtin/prealloc... [1]: Chris Wellons, "Arena allocator tips and tricks",…

comment by babel_ · 2024-02-24 · in V Language Review (2023)

…language over 6 months + information that I found on Discord while I was writing this article. From https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/b66447cf11318d5499bd2d797b... : > felipensp committed Nov 20, 2023 Can you clarify how you're calculating…

comment by saghm · 2024-02-24 · in V Language Review (2023)

V also has this https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#embed_fil...

comment by odiroot · 2024-02-20 · in Cake – C23 and Beyond (2023)

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Vlang Release v0.4.4

story by fork-bomber · 2024-01-16 · 0 comments

No it doesn't. Pure V: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/net

comment by amedvednikov · 2024-01-09 · in Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V

…(e.g. readline, reading from maps) that are still being fixed as recently as half a year ago: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/18009 , https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/19454

comment by nulld3v · 2024-01-04 · in Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990 https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35 https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23/ https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-prog…

comment by munificent · 2024-01-04 · in Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V