User:SWinxy/V (programming language)
 The V logo | |
| Paradigms | |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Alexander Medvednikov[1] |
| Developer | Alexander Medvednikov[1] & Other open source contributors |
| First appeared | 2019 [2] |
| Stable release | |
| Typing discipline | |
| Platform | x86-64 x86 arm64 arm |
| OS | Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Android |
| License | MIT[3][4] |
| Filename extensions | .v, .vh, .vsh |
| Website | www |
| Major implementations | |
| GCC, Clang, MSVC | |
| Dialects | |
| Good Ol' Fashioned V | |
| Influenced by | |
| Numerous: AMPL, AWK, csh, C++, C#, Objective-C, D, Go, JavaScript, Julia, Limbo, LPC, Perl, PHP, Pike, Processing, Python, Ring,[5] Rust, Seed7 | |
V (/viː/, as in the letter v), also known as Vlang, is a general-purpose, procedural computer programming language designed and maintained by Russian programmer Alex Medvednikov. V is very similar to Go, ghosting its syntax and concurrency system, but implements a memory management scheme and other safety features from Rust. The official release of the V compiler was originally written in Go, but is now self-hosting and can further transpile to Javascript and C. V was written to specifically focus on being easy to learn, fast, and safe. A consistent claim of the language is its ability to compile up to 1.2 million lines of code per second, with the resulting binary performing within 3% of an equivalent C program, and that it can compile its own compiler in under half a second.[4]
History
The V programming language was first documented in March 2019, after a period of being listed as a new language used specifically to create Volt, a social networking app created by V designer Alex Medvednikov.[1] Until June, no source code for V was released; the website simply hosted the specification for the language, its features, and an online 'playground' to test V code. on 22 June, the V GitHub repository received its first commit, version 0.0.12.[6] It was created with the intent of having a very small memory footprint, small binary sizes, fast compilation, and of being safe, with features such as checking for type-errors at compile time, lacking null pointers, and defaulting to immutable objects. At launch, V only supported Linux and macOS.
As of November, V is considered to be in alpha, as many of its claims are still a work in progress.[4] According to V's official website and GitHub repository, the first stable release, version 0.2, is due late January 2020 , and release 1.0 is due 2020.[4]
Criticism
V has received multiple of criticisms across sources, generally questioning its claims to performance, safety, and lack of dependencies. It has, especially prior to the source code's release, been considered vaporware.[7][8]
On 22 June, Alex stated in the release announcement for V's source code release that there are "lots of hacks I'm really embarrassed about" and that it contains "a lot of ugly C code", but that it will be "quickly cleaned up in the coming weeks".
Examples
Hello World
Here is a simple "Hello, World!" program written in V. The println function prints the message to standard output.
fn main() {
println('Hello World!')
}
Citations
- ^ a b c "Volt | <1 MB desktop client for Slack, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and more". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Open-sourced with V 0.0.12
- ^ a b "The V Programming Language". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d "vlang/v: Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero dependencies. Stable release in November 2019. https://vlang.io". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ "Introduction". Ring 1.10 documentation. Ring (programming language). Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ "V 0.0.12 open-source release · vlang/v@d32e538". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ "The V Programming Language: Vain or Virtuous? | Hackaday".
- ^ "The V programming language is now open source - is it too good to be true? | Packt Hub". Retrieved 17 November 2019.