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Re:V by phpisatrash on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:00AM (#30811095)
Why V is again on front page? It's nothing more than Go with fewer libs and packages.

And I wonder, WHO compile a programming language to use it?

It can be learned in 1 hour? Yes. Go can be learned in 1 hour.

Honestly I don't see any benefits using V. Is nothing more than Go renamed with "V" and "marketing".

Re:V by Tozen on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:04PM (#30822448)
That's clearly incorrect. V has significant differences between it and Go. Suggest actually reading the documentation. https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md
Re:V by turminal on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:03AM (#30811115)
And more bugs
Re:V by jdmoreira on Saturday March 26, 2022 @02:37PM (#30814152)
I'm reading this: https://vlang.io/compare#go

Never used V and barely used Go. But still, some of those differences are a huge plus in my mind. For example Go FFI is notoriously slow.

Also immutability by default, enums, generics, no global state. Sounds awesome to my hears!

Re:V by super_flanker on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:11PM (#30936258)
They are awesome on paper, but in reality implementation is full of bugs and doesn't work as advertised.
Re:V by colejohnson66 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:07PM (#30814920)
See also: the V team’s “block” approach to Christine (Xe) raising some concerns: https://christine.website/blog/series/v
Re:V by Tozen on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:58PM (#30822382)
The first wave of Christine's complaints were when the V programming was just released. That's ludicrous to be doing that, to any programming language. Nobody is going to release a fully finished and complete programming language on day 1.

Criticisms from 2 and a half years ago on a new programming language are mostly not relevant.

It's really time to let go of the hate or come out and admit being an advocate for some other competing language.

Re:V by gompertz on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:09PM (#30816807)
Wow, 2.5 years ago. So relevant.
Re:V by colejohnson66 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:51PM (#30817324)
The complaints are from 2.5 years ago, yes. But the unprofessional response to the concerns is the issue.
Re:V by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:00AM (#30811099)
@dang Could we retitle this to "The V Programming Language"?
Re:V by zozbot234 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:04AM (#30811122)
The V is short for Vaporware of course.
Re:V by artemonster on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:06AM (#30811133)
I remember this notion when most of the features were on a wishlist and a roadmap, but why its still a vaporware?
Re:V by Tozen on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:02PM (#30822424)
Spouting V is vaporware, is nonsense. Especially when they have an update at around a new one per week and over 90 releases- https://github.com/vlang/v/releases
Re:V by gompertz on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:10PM (#30816814)
Yeah... 13,000+ git commits. Certainly vaporware. Come on man.
Re:V by super_flanker on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:13PM (#30936292)
Yeah, it doesn't change the fact that their advertised features don't work as expected and is crippled with tons of bugs.
Re:V by danparsonson on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:02AM (#30811107)
See also the homepage at https://vlang.io/