amedvednikov

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Cool!

I've translated it from Rust to V in 45 minutes. Works great:

https://github.com/medvednikov/libjs_v

Compiles in 0.2 seconds on my M5 (compared to Rust's 3.3 seconds).

amedvednikov

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Can you please link to V claiming to be production ready?

amedvednikov

11 maanden geledendiscuss

The code you pasted doesn't compile, so it's you who are lying.

Can you link to the promised autofree without GC?

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

> For me the biggest gap in programming languages is a rust like language with a garbage collector, instead of a borrow checker.

https://vlang.io

GC, sum types, result/option types, interfaces, no OOP, fast compilation.

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Legit interested, what's subpar about the translation?

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

A lot of text, you didn't answer my simple questions though:

> Can you list any weird behavior/bugs that lead to frustration and confusion?

> And examples of the documentation being outdated/wrong?

Since you wrote

> The documentation is outdated, missing or wrong.

> using it for any real world project is an exercise in frustration and confusion

that shouldn't be hard

People that build the OS don't work on the compiler, not sure what that was about.

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Such discussions are always the same. You say there are lots of issues, but can never list one. And you point to articles that complain about V using libc or that C2V was released in 2022 and not earlier. It's 2025!

Our documentation is very vast and up-to-date and we try to keep it up-to-date. So if you say it's wrong/missing/outdated, you could post a couple of examples, so that we can fix it. That shouldn't be hard for you.

As for an issue you referenced, yes a pre-1.0 language has bugs. Thousands. Like all other pre-1.0 languages being developed. We fix them quickly (~9k fixed, ~800 open)

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Good point. I'll add the homebrew installation method. Maybe some other popular package managers.

V is very easy to install from source and to bootstrap. And it changes fast. So we're not big fans of package managers yet.

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Hm V literally has a big discussion called

"What don't you like about V / what would you like to be changed?"

https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

What exactly do you think only looks good on paper?

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

The network library doesn't use curl:

https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/net

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

There are prebuilt packages you can install from the home page and from the github repo.

For example

https://github.com/vlang/v/releases/latest/download/v_linux....

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Everything that's listed on the home page is delivered.

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

Can you list any weird behavior/bugs that lead to frustration and confusion?

And examples of the documentation being outdated/wrong?

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

We recently migrated from YAML CI to VSH as well:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ci/linux_ci.vsh

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

> It's usually all your Pythons, Gos, and anything else with a GC is doing anyway.

GC langs don't do clones (copying), that's the point of the GC.

amedvednikov

vorig jaardiscuss

How is it compromised?

amedvednikov

2 jaar geledendiscuss

It's not half baked lol.

amedvednikov

2 jaar geledendiscuss

V is Go with Option/Result, enums, ORM etc:

https://vlang.io/compare#go

amedvednikov

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Signal is openly against third party clients, they basically killed LibreSignal:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Also how easy is it to run a custom Signal server?

amedvednikov

2 jaar geledendiscuss

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amedvednikov

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