Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-04 Thread Kim Shrier
I’ve played with the V language and I like it. I also was able to run into problems almost immediately. However since the language was easy for me to read and write, and I like the principles that it espouses, I chose to help the project out instead of criticizing its shortcomings. I have submit

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-04 Thread Willow Liquorice
It depends on which bits of C99 it needs, see /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 in any 9front distribution for an example. I can't speak for any maintainers, but if there's any C99 thing that Nim needs that the C compilers lack: "patches welcome" IMO. - Willow On 04/10/2024 17:54, Emery Hemingway w

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-04 Thread Emery Hemingway
Excerpts from Thaddeus Woskowiak's message of October 4, 2024 3:12 am: > There's also Nim. Kinda like a Python that compiles to C or other languages > like JavaScript. Might be the easy to port. Nim is easy to port but to get the stock memory management to work it needs a C99 compiler, which is no

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-04 Thread Noam Preil
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Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-04 Thread dpe
I've been called many worse things in my time :) It sounds like Zig is one to watch. I presume - I'm just an armchair engineer after all - Harvey OS would have similar challenges with Rust in relation to R9. If so, their experience would be instructive for a hypothetical "Z9"(although IBM may h