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…priorities. Another of the newer languages that fall into a similar usage space would be Vlang ( https://github.com/vlang/v ). It being debatably easier to learn and use, in the context of languages that more easily interact with C.

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-30 · in Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard

…bothers to actually click the link on vlang.io which refers to "pure functions" it would go to ( https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#pure-func... ) their documentation where they elaborate on it further. There you will find,…

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-11 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

…for the outrageous opinion that V is vaporware, after 84 releases and weekly updates on GitHub ( https://github.com/vlang/v/releases ). > For V, on the comparaison page with Go: "- No GC", on the main page of V: "Most objects (~90-100%)…

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-10 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

…looking on GitHub and the documentation. V has been consistently coming out with weekly releases ( https://github.com/vlang/v/releases ) and updates for years now.

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-10 · in Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program

…they are on a tremendous development pace where they have been doing weekly releases for years ( https://github.com/vlang/v/releases ). That's called consistency. Usually the hallmark of reliability, which can instill trust. On GitHub (…

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-10 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

…making steady progress and changes over the last few years. To get an idea about this, refer to https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610 or search their feature request history. The developers and contributors had and are clearly having…

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-08 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

…will not rely on them for building software. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function [2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#optionres... [3]: https://vlang.io/compare#go

comment by Zababa · 2022-01-07 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

…Download and play with it. To familiarize yourself, maybe better to go over: 1) documentation ( https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md ) 2) documentation on modules ( https://modules.vlang.io/ ) 3) ebook (…

comment by Tozen · 2022-01-07 · in It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)

This is what spooks me out most for now: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues It looks like a lot of non trivial issues. Other than that I like the concept of V. Maybe except one small thing ":=" ;-)

comment by danielEM · 2022-01-05 · in The V Programming Language Simple, fast, safe, compiled

The "V" programming language has these features built in. https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#orm

comment by animal_spirits · 2021-12-31 · in Table Oriented Programming (2002)

…to the more established languages. For instance, another new one out there that I like is VLang ( https://github.com/vlang/v ). Like Red, it needs to find a sweet spot that will propel it to greater usage and recognition. Partly that can…

comment by Tozen · 2021-12-19 · in I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]

…Vlang[0], I wonder how they are doing and if it's comparable to Zig, in terms of performance. [0]: https://github.com/vlang/v

comment by rickstanley · 2021-12-06 · in Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard

…with it. vlang[0] also seems like a nice golang "fork" that I'd be willing to spend time on. [0]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md

comment by abdusco · 2021-11-09 · in .NET 6 Released

Checkout https://github.com/vlang/v/ . Recompiling the V compiler itself from scratch (V is written in V), after you make a change to its source, takes ~2s.

comment by delian66 · 2021-11-06 · in An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]

you might've mistaken it for v which has been open-sourced in the meantime: https://github.com/vlang/v

comment by metafex · 2021-11-03 · in Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more

…said that in their Discord they mentioned[1] that the memory model was taken from Lobster. [0]: https://github.com/vlang/v#key-features-of-v [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25514198

comment by forgotpwd16 · 2021-10-07 · in Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)

So what's the relationship to the V programming language? https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md

comment by Avshalom · 2021-09-18 · in Adorad Programming Language

No, this file is no longer used. We have a fully working net module: https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/net/http

comment by amedvednikov · 2021-08-04 · in Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

…os.system('curl -s -L -o "$out" "$url"') // println(res) } Here's what that file looks like today: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/net/http/downloa...

comment by rozab · 2021-08-04 · in Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

…Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) open makes me suspicious. [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/6456

comment by kvark · 2021-08-04 · in Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

…in the generated C? - Generics -> The example shown in your own docs expresses how "wip" this is ( https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#generics ). Why is `T.name` allowed? `T` can be literally anything since there is no…

comment by vlang1dot0 · 2021-06-09 · in Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

…his accusation of fraud, due to the V devs updating the advertised capabilities of the project. [0] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/292 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351 [2] https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-…

comment by unclad5968 · 2021-06-08 · in Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

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

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

…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

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story by jhack · 2021-01-22 · 1 comment

…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

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V(vlang): After 0.3, we'll be going for 1.0 right away

story by theBashShell · 2021-01-03 · 0 comments

…`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

…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

…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

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

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

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

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story by 0xedb · 2020-12-22 · 159 comments

…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

…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

…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

…"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

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

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

…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

…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

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

…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

…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

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