Re:The bizarre world of the V Programming Language
by baranul on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:30AM
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Agreed. Also, find the pettiness and jealousy exhibited by certain detractors and rivals, as very unnecessary and often ridiculous. Can't remember ever seeing persons so strangely invested to pull out such outdated and invalid criticisms or very obvious misinformation attack blogs. Popular open-source projects are not static; they develop, change, and fix things. Instead of hate or slander, people can join and help.
Maybe it could be argued that the corporate maneuverings to repress the popularity of Pascal/Object Pascal/Delphi or PHP were somewhat similar, but that didn't seem to have such a childish or cultish tone to them. And despite the unethical efforts, those languages were and are relatively successful too.
Regardless of these bizarre efforts at repression, the popularity and development of V continues. Almost 38,000 stars, over 2,300 forks, and 850 contributors. One of the most popular programming languages on GitHub. More new books (Amazon), tutorials, and examples are continually published[1].
Maybe it could be argued that the corporate maneuverings to repress the popularity of Pascal/Object Pascal/Delphi or PHP were somewhat similar, but that didn't seem to have such a childish or cultish tone to them. And despite the unethical efforts, those languages were and are relatively successful too.
Regardless of these bizarre efforts at repression, the popularity and development of V continues. Almost 38,000 stars, over 2,300 forks, and 850 contributors. One of the most popular programming languages on GitHub. More new books (Amazon), tutorials, and examples are continually published[1].
Free 3rd Party Tutorials and Examples[1]:
https://codefreelance.net/apps/vlang.html (The V Programming Language: A Comprehensive Textbook Guide - new)
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:V_(Vlang) (Rosetta Code - almost 700 examples)
https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang (Exercism - free personal mentors)