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

Why? (Not being flip. This is the first I’ve heard of it and I’d like your thoughts.) D > On Oct 2, 2024, at 3:31 PM, Noam Preil wrote: > > V is a scam. > > - Noam Preil -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9d57d40811a8

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

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

I did a bit of digging around on the internet about this after Noam's email, because it piqued my curiosity. I'd always dismissed V as basically being Zig, but without any of Zig's evolutionary ideas about memory management and comptime execution. When V was a young project, the lead dev made

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

I look forward to end of the "what C needs is more bureaucracy" era of programming language design. I note that the linked discussion starts out with someone stating a concrete goal which would justify porting a language to a platform, and the following recommendation of V is primarily vibe-based.

Re: [9fans] plan9port changes to rc and acme

Quoth Russ Cox : > > In plan9port, back in 2020, I wrote a new parser in rc to clean up a few > things, most notably that = signs are now allowed in command arguments. > This makes rc much nicer for using programs with -foo=bar flag syntax. It > was pointed out to me that I may not have announced

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

In spite of this early drama it seems to be coming along fine. It feels more like go but with some different choices. Compiles itself in seconds (tcc or system c compiler as backend). I’ve written small programs in it and like it so far. It supports *BSD, linux, macos, windows, etc. but not plan

[9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

In a discussion on the Genode forum, a fellow member recommended a new programming language called V (vlang.io). As a distant observer of 9Front, I noted that V sounded very much in their wheelhouse, given its enthusias