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The V Programming Language

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Re: The V Programming Language

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Post by hawkice »

Those fast compiles, fast speed, plus the feature list (standard generics and hot code reloading) make this look insanely cool! What's the secret sauce? The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems nearly impossible.

Edit: sibling comment points out it may seem amazingly cool and nearly impossible because it does not, in fact, exist. How can we learn more about the feasibility of this living up to their claims?

Re: The V Programming Language

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Post by quickthrower2 »

sagichmal wrote: post #2

This is vaporware bordering on a scam, please don't signal boost it. https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...

Just teething problems I reckon par for the course for a new language.

Not honoring monotonic let alone semantic versioning is a bit annoying but oh well.

Re: The V Programming Language

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Post by blattimwind »

sagichmal wrote: post #2

This is vaporware bordering on a scam, please don't signal boost it. https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...

> hellomodule ... hellomodule.o ... hellomodule__print_1_1 ... "cannot import module "mymodule" (not found)" …oh dear. Can someone file this as an issue for me?

Well...

Re: The V Programming Language

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Post by mstade »

hawkice wrote: post #3

Those fast compiles, fast speed, plus the feature list (standard generics and hot code reloading) make this look insanely cool! What's the secret sauce? The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems nearly impossible. Edit: sibling comment points out it may seem amazingly cool and nearly impossible because it does not, in fact, exist. How can we learn more about the feasibility of th…

This has been discussed on HN several times before, and as far as I can tell most of the claims have been too good to be true. For a bit more nuanced review, Christine Dodrill has written posts on the topic, with this being the latest: https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
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