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Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language

18 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 5 stories, 13 comments · first 2021-06-08 · latest 2026-10-04

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  1. …from those used to C family languages, has arguably a lot to do with its OCaml[2] (ML) roots. [1]: https://github.com/vlang/vinix [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml
    comment by baranul · 2025-08-28 · in Zig 0.15.1
  2. …are not just stirring up drama with their community or funneling traffic to their site. [0] https://github.com/vlang/vinix [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puy77WfM1Tg (Anthony GG reviews Vlang) [2]…
    comment by baranul · 2025-04-28 · in Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?
  3. Link to project: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by p_ing · 2025-02-26 · in Show HN: Vinix, a new OS/kernel written from scratch, can now run GTK3
  4. …https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#memory-ma... (4 ways to manage memory in V) [2]: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by Tozen · 2023-06-26 · in Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?
  5. …Alex for persisting on V. [0] https://xeiaso.net/blog/series/v [1] https://github.com/vlang/c2v [2] https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by colesantiago · 2022-07-01 · in V 0.3
  6. …is, isn't it? Can you compile v compiler with autofree? Last time I checked, you can't. [1] https://github.com/vlang/vinix/search?q=free&type=code
    comment by super_flanker · 2022-06-20 · in V Language Review
  7. …than alpha" yes, the os is being developed in V, and it can already run bash, GCC, G++, and Doom. https://github.com/vlang/vinix the person working on it, is an osdev, and not a compiler developer
    comment by amedvednikov · 2022-04-17 · in Hello V-Lang
  8. …One of the coolest latest projects is the Vinix OS, written fully in V: https://github.com/vlang/vinix It's a POSIX OS that already runs libc, bash, GCC, g++, and Doom.
    comment by amedvednikov · 2022-04-17 · in Hello V-Lang
  9. …interact with C and are viable alternatives to it as well. Vlang even created its own OS, Vinix ( https://github.com/vlang/vinix ), to show its capabilities in this regard. Seems to me, Cello would be more for those C programmers that…
    comment by Tozen · 2022-03-06 · in Cello – High Level C
  10. Running gcc & Vi? Congrats that's a good os, genrally usable. Github page for the project: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by rektide · 2021-12-02 · in Vinix: A new OS/kernel written in V. Booting, running coreutils, GCC, g++, V, vi
  11. …was. By the way, we now have a cool OS written in V, that can already run Bash, g++, and V itself! https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by amedvednikov · 2021-09-08 · in Maintain It with Zig
  12. Already beat you to it https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by penagwin · 2021-08-04 · in Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
  13. For anyone who needs the link: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
    comment by crthpl · 2021-06-20 · in Vinix, a new OS written in V, now runs mlibc and bash