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Congrats on releasing V v0.2! It's a great language and the compile times are amazing. My only issue is keeping up with the constantly changing vlib. Do you ha

Congrats on releasing V v0.2! It's a great language and the compile times are amazing. My only issue is keeping up with the constantly changing vlib. Do you have any plans to resume working on Volt (the original V app)? I thought the idea behind it was great, but there hasn't been an update in 1.5 years.

amedvednikov 6y ago
Thanks! Yes, it has been blocked by the memory management work and the 0.2 release, both of which took a while, especially since most of the compiler had to be re-written from scratch (using an AST). The UI library was also re-written several times as we tried different approaches (native vs custom rendering). The good news is that Volt was always being updated and made compilable, and a public beta is also coming this month. I'm already using Volt as my primary Discord client (and my 8 GB RAM laptop thanks me for that, since I've freed 2 GB of RAM). Here's a sneak peek: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731265552395534357/790876897952923678/Screenshot_2020-12-22_at_10.42.14.png?width=1666&height=1067 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731265552395534357/... Some layout issues, and Chinese/Japanese/emoji not being rendered correctly, but the latter has been fixed on a branch. The moral of the story is: if you want to deliver a software application quickly, don't write a new language/stdlib/ui lib for it from scratch. At least I got to create a cool language and share it with the world :)
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- abc-xyz 6y ago
  Did you ever release the code of the original Go version of Eul/Volt?