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Re: The V Programming Language

#21

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

This is a language in development, which already has code available, compiles, has programs and libs written in it, etc. One could say varpourware back in spring when V was first posted but the repo was closed etc. Not anymore.

But you could say that it overpromises and underdelivers...

Re: The V Programming Language

#22
post #14

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

Came here to ask why this project was at the top of HN with 15k stars on github yet I had never heard of it. Was also wondering just why- the scope, claims and goals of the project make no sense.

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Re: The V Programming Language

#23
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…

> The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems nearly impossible.

It's easy to make a language that compiles faster than C. First get rid of the C preprocessor, and fix the syntax so it is easier to parse (e.g. `name: Type` rather than `Type name`). You can go even further and make it possible to parse each line independently (I think Zig does this?).

Second use a simple modern code generator that doesn't do much optimisation.

Re: The V Programming Language

#25
post #24

There have been a bunch of threads about this in the past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271 Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485

I guess the paradox of killing them all so quickly is it's unlikely the signal of poor quality propagates widely

first time I saw it was today and I thought it looked cool.

I think name and shame, street parade the criminal would be a good moderation idea. don't just highlight the best, highlight the worst. it helps reinforce standards

never seen a forum do that tho. it's always about the most liked

but in society we also know the most hated

Re: The V Programming Language

#26
post #20

> There's no garbage collection or reference counting. V cleans everything up during compilation. If your V program compiles, it's guaranteed that it's going to be leak free.

I don't quite understand, what is guaranteeing it's leak free?

Exactly.

Re: The V Programming Language

#27
post #24

There have been a bunch of threads about this in the past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271 Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485

I guess the paradox of killing them all so quickly is it's unlikely the signal of poor quality propagates widely first time I saw it was today and I thought it looked cool. I think name and shame, street parade the criminal would be a good moderation idea. don't just highlight the best, highlight the worst. it helps reinforce standards never seen a forum do that tho. it's always about the most liked but in society we…

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