The Comparison page is pretty illustrative here: this language appears to be an effort to build up a lower-level-ish Go (e.g. no runtime, no GC) with some extra

The Comparison page is pretty illustrative here: this language appears to be an effort to build up a lower-level-ish Go (e.g. no runtime, no GC) with some extra features (e.g. nullable types, generics) and some extra safety properties (e.g. no global state, immutable-data-by-default.) c.f. https://vlang.io/compare https://vlang.io/compare