[HN Gopher] The V Programming Language Simple, fast, safe, compiled
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       The V Programming Language Simple, fast, safe, compiled
        
       Author : andrewstuart
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-01-04 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | vsskanth wrote:
       | Been keeping an eye on vlang since its initial post here (and the
       | subsequent flame war) on HN. The initial language feature list
       | was pretty ambitious.
       | 
       | Seems like they're taking a batteries included approach in trying
       | to bring in as many use cases as possible using libraries written
       | in V.
       | 
       | How are they progressing towards their promises for vlang in
       | terms of base language features as a systems language ? I
       | remember reading they still had some unsafe stuff going on that
       | needed fixing
        
       | danielEM wrote:
       | I'm a bit torn between these as none is suiting all of my needs:
       | 
       | http://ecere.org/ https://haxe.org/ https://dlang.org/ and ofc
       | ... https://vlang.io/
       | 
       | All can compile to C and I find it somewhat important as would be
       | very happy to share same code base with microcontrollers (SDCC),
       | Android, Linux, Windows and web wasm. Unfortunately (to my
       | knowledge) not all offer optional or selective garbage
       | collection, some look immature and so on :-(
        
         | tyingq wrote:
         | Maybe nim then? Compiles to C and has a sort of optional GC in
         | that you can configure it to do plain reference counting.
        
         | moonchild wrote:
         | D does not compile to c, and has garbage collection.
        
         | fyzix wrote:
         | Sounds like nim is the perfect fit for your usecase.
         | https://nim-lang.org
         | 
         | It can also compiles to c, c++, obj-c and js...plus it has an
         | official jetbrains plugin.
        
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