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I'm surprised to see that the compiler is written in V (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/). Last I heard, V was vaporware, and a lot of its claims about perfo

I'm surprised to see that the compiler is written in V (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/). Last I heard, V was vaporware, and a lot of its claims about performance etc. ended up being "todo" items rather than facts about the language as it actually existed. But that was several years ago; has anything changed? Otherwise, fun project! I could see this actually being useful in some niche cases, e.g. generating scripts that need to work on some exotic architecture that has a POSIX Sh implementation. It might also be useful for writing interactive shell "plugins" that set up things like a fancy PS1 prompt.

yisonPylkita 5y ago
I would love to hear more about that. Does someone here have an experience with V lang and can tell us if its claims are at least close to truth?
- camgunz 5y ago
  This was my impression too and it looks like they've made really impressive progress since I last saw them on HN. Their bug list [0] looks kind of scary, but that's maybe par for the course for a language? I remember the bad old days of Go's 32-bit GC not being wonderful for example. [0]: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Status%3A+Confirmed%22 https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lab...
  - KerrAvon 5y ago
    Maybe? Some of those sound like unit tests should have caught them.
  - rurban 5y ago
    looks very much like Rust's issue tracker to me
    - johnisgood 5y ago
      Agreed! Also... I was just going through smhasher. Thank you for it!
  - deleted 5y ago
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- jokethrowaway 5y ago
  I generally prefer h https://h.christine.website/ https://h.christine.website/
  - spacemanmatt 5y ago
    h is the core framework language of my global infrastructure
- Tozen 5y ago
  Would be good to go check out their documentation and/or modules, to get a feel for the language: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md https://modules.vlang.io/ https://modules.vlang.io/ The documentation and modules are truthful. What they have claimed to set out to do, is what they are doing and where they are going.
silisili 5y ago
V is a beautiful language, but got tons of flak for being overambitious if you're generous, a scam if you're being suspicious. They've been called both on this very site. I follow it, and love their ambition...but there are a ton of open issues that convince me it's not even alpha quality yet. If anyone has experience otherwise, would love to hear.
- Tozen 5y ago
  Rust, Go, Zig, etc... have a huge list of issues. Talking they have thousands of issues... Which is plain to see on GitHub. I think people have to be clear to separate the hate (or sneak hating) that can be spewed out by advocates of competing languages versus the reality.

yisonPylkita 5y ago

I would love to hear more about that. Does someone here have an experience with V lang and can tell us if its claims are at least close to truth?

camgunz 5y ago
This was my impression too and it looks like they've made really impressive progress since I last saw them on HN. Their bug list [0] looks kind of scary, but that's maybe par for the course for a language? I remember the bad old days of Go's 32-bit GC not being wonderful for example. [0]: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Status%3A+Confirmed%22 https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lab...
- KerrAvon 5y ago
  Maybe? Some of those sound like unit tests should have caught them.
- rurban 5y ago
  looks very much like Rust's issue tracker to me
  - johnisgood 5y ago
    Agreed! Also... I was just going through smhasher. Thank you for it!
- deleted 5y ago
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jokethrowaway 5y ago
I generally prefer h https://h.christine.website/ https://h.christine.website/
- spacemanmatt 5y ago
  h is the core framework language of my global infrastructure
Tozen 5y ago
Would be good to go check out their documentation and/or modules, to get a feel for the language: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md https://modules.vlang.io/ https://modules.vlang.io/ The documentation and modules are truthful. What they have claimed to set out to do, is what they are doing and where they are going.

silisili 5y ago

V is a beautiful language, but got tons of flak for being overambitious if you're generous, a scam if you're being suspicious. They've been called both on this very site. I follow it, and love their ambition...but there are a ton of open issues that convince me it's not even alpha quality yet. If anyone has experience otherwise, would love to hear.

Tozen 5y ago
Rust, Go, Zig, etc... have a huge list of issues. Talking they have thousands of issues... Which is plain to see on GitHub. I think people have to be clear to separate the hate (or sneak hating) that can be spewed out by advocates of competing languages versus the reality.