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Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

237 mentions on Hacker News by 106 people: 41 stories, 196 comments · first 2019-02-09 · latest 2026-10-07

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  1. I think it would be more productive to direct the attention to https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/1247 which catalogues a number of issues with the proposed approach and yet hasn't had any activity in 9 months.
    comment by vlang1dot0 · 2021-06-08 · in Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
  2. FALSE. Look at the date and check out: https://github.com/vlang/v
    comment by ylluminate · 2021-06-08 · in Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
  3. …ones don't have. I never heard of V so I looked it up: https://vlang.io/ An implementation of 2048: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/examples/2048/2048.v in V
    comment by spicybright · 2021-06-08 · in Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
  4. …There's a view of the layout of the code here and a simple description of what each part does: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md I just typed 'type parsing' into the repo's search box and it was the second result.
    comment by fao_ · 2021-01-17 · in Ask HN: How can V compile 1M code lines/s while doing implicit type parsing
  5. …`shared` objects into the V core language as a more efficient way of sharing data (see also https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/upcoming.md#varia... ): shared x := ... go f(shared x) lock x { // modify x } rlock x { // read x }…
    comment by UweKrueger · 2021-01-03 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  6. …is also a design decision). In V a failure due to a closed channel can be trapped using `or` ( https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#syntax-an... ) on the receiving side or by using `select` (…
    comment by UweKrueger · 2021-01-01 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  7. …relying on anything about it. [1]: https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1234586123424456705 [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/bc288019932c35cc09dcf7b438bc... [3]: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/bc288019932c35cc09dcf7b438bc...
    comment by pityJuke · 2020-12-22 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  8. We have an extensive documentation page that is pretty much a tutorial: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md
    comment by amedvednikov · 2020-12-22 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  9. Check this test out: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/v/tests/valgrind... It has lots of comments and will give you a good picture.
    comment by amedvednikov · 2020-12-22 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  10. Code sample on the landing page would be nice. Here is Tetris in V: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/examples/tetris/tetri...
    comment by hota_mazi · 2020-12-22 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  11. …19 Pull Requests authored by 11 different people merged. Along other strong activity indicators. https://github.com/vlang/v/pulse That's gotta be the most active vapoware project I've seen to date.
    comment by hu3 · 2020-11-05 · in Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
  12. …for Windows, macOS and Linux. It does look immature but very active. Not what I'd call vaporware. https://github.com/vlang/v
    comment by hu3 · 2020-09-19 · in Why Rust is not a mature programming language
  13. …management, ie solving them would mean moving away from lobster's strategy as far as I undersand https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/1247 Lobster's approach at least has some theoretical rigorousness to it. What V is doing is quite different…
    comment by vlang1dot0 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  14. …"I haven't received any crash reports from other users" is a verifiable fabrication. ([1]( https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/6310 ), [2]( https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/6263 ), [3]( https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/4730 )) >…
    comment by vlang1dot0 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  15. See https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/On-the-benefits-of-using-C-a...
    comment by delian66 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  16. V is not vaporware - I use it daily, so do hundreds of other developers - see the commit log at https://github.com/vlang/v/commits/master . Have you tried it yourself? It takes just a minute to clone and build it, if you already have a…
    comment by delian66 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  17. …programs and their results that are in serious use are actually regulaly tested with Valgrind See https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/v/tests/valgrind . The automatic memory management is work in progress right now, but we do have…
    comment by delian66 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  18. …just boil down to the half-truths or outright lies on the home page: > No null From their own docs: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#calling-c... we see error_msg := charptr(0) and a use 5 lines later with no "unsafe" or…
    comment by vlang1dot0 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  19. It is a general purpose language, but there are several games in the main V repo, for example: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/examples/tetris/tetri... https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/examples/2048/2048.v You can try them…
    comment by delian66 · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  20. …be good to know what are the contributions. I have looked at the github page of V contributers https://github.com/vlang/v/graphs/contributors and have not find Chrinstine there.
    comment by lightgreen · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  21. …it looks like there is a ton of effort going on. 6458 commits and 687 open issues. Seems promising? https://github.com/vlang/v
    comment by azhenley · 2020-09-15 · in The V Programming Language
  22. well I just git cloned it and ran make and that was it. Very impressive 26k line generated c file: https://github.com/vlang/vc/blob/master/v.c is this the future of C? it's like too dangerous for humans to code it directly. We need langs…
    comment by andrewfromx · 2019-12-25 · in Golang and Rust = Vlang
  23. …V compiler hasn't crashed once for me, and I haven't received any crash reports from other users. https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/2838 "Compiler crash during filtering's assignment operation on a mutable array"…
    comment by tom_mellior · 2019-12-05 · in On the benefits of using C as a language back end
  24. …incorporated into the 'master' branch[1] so you can now use it. 0 - https://vlang.io/docs#bash 1 - https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/5cd38ec91bc1919aca9f63432e...
    comment by nedp · 2019-10-19 · in The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
  25. …The author's misrepresentation of the language, of course, hangs overhead upon all of this. https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35 I don't want to discount all of the work people have put into V. It is clear that they have made considerable…
    comment by hybrids · 2019-10-19 · in The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
  26. …2019 deadline would mean going from "first public alpha"[3] to 1.0 in less than a year. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v [a] depending on what 1.0 means, I guess [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296992 [3]…
    comment by dinglejungle · 2019-10-19 · in The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds
  27. and the REPL only leaks 1MB [1] to compile and run a hello world program. 1: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/514
    comment by hexane360 · 2019-07-18 · in What's Coming in Python 3.8
  28. …simplicity and "only one way to do it": https://vlang.io The development has been going quite well: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-07-17 · in What's Coming in Python 3.8
  29. …this "vaporware"? The compiler can already compile itself in 0.3 seconds and is written 100% in V: https://github.com/vlang/v#installing-v-from-source It allows building easy cross platform graphical apps:…
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-06-23 · in V Is for Vaporware
  30. I think I have found a single line of C here lol: Here it is: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/978ec58fe300929555786fdf58ca... Please explain the use of `#include <pthread.h>` then, because as far as I can tell, this is a C header...unless…
    comment by stephen82 · 2019-06-23 · in The V Programming Language is open source
  31. …this on Twitter, GitHub, Hacker News, and Reddit. Maybe even more platforms I didn't notice. https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/292#issuecomment-504281727
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-06-22 · in The V Programming Language is open source
  32. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610971 https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/319 (issues are being deleted https://mobile.twitter.com/boy_edgey/status/1142507034446876... )…
    comment by estebank · 2019-06-22 · in The V Programming Language is open source
  33. Maybe it would be better to change the link to [1] ? [1] https://github.com/vlang/v
    comment by ksec · 2019-06-22 · in The V Programming Language is open source
  34. …you can stack much reputation that your mistake or short-sighted action doesn't harm yourself. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/287 [2] Not that I like this form of release. Proprietary languages simply don't work in the modern world.
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  35. …is shown that your language is just "Not as Advertised", which I originally stated in this issue: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35 Note: You also deleted many comments by other individuals criticizing your claims in that issue too.
    comment by gingerBill · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  36. …did not call this project as fraudulent rather "This is not as advertised" which talked about here: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35 Note: some of the comments on that issue have been deleted by the v-lang creator as they were…
    comment by gingerBill · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  37. And here's why: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/287
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  38. …but even without knowing much PL knowledge AndyKelley is very clearly showing that it is shady. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35 (For example, there are ways to implement generics or interfaces without AST, much harder but a…
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  39. …it is natural and understandable that people doubt its premise before the full release. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  40. https://github.com/vlang/v says the source code will be released on 2019-06-22.
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-06-20 · in The V Programming Language
  41. I'm working on something that might do #4 and #5: https://vlang.io/#ui An example of a small GUI app: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples/users_gui The app is about 100 KB on all platforms with zero dependencies and uses native…
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-04-25 · in Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
  42. Isn't V fake? https://github.com/vlang/v
    comment by MuffinFlavored · 2019-04-09 · in Zig 0.4.0 Released
  43. …readable) C, so you get the great platform support and optimization of gcc and Clang."[0] [0] https://github.com/vlang-io/V#run-everywhere
    comment by bitt · 2019-03-30 · in V Playground
  44. See https://github.com/vlang-io/V/issues/3#issuecomment-46780844... and the following two comments.
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2019-03-16 · in The V Programming Language
  45. https://github.com/vlang-io/V/blob/master/examples/users.v They are very simple and combine Rust's Option<T> and Result<T>.
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-02-21 · in Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
  46. You can follow the project here: https://github.com/vlang-io/V https://vlang.io
    comment by amedvednikov · 2019-02-09 · in About V, the language Volt is written in