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21 | 2,301 | |
1,794 | 2,340 | |
1.5% | - | |
9.2 | 6.9 | |
about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
V | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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vos
- Vala Programming Language
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V Language Review (2023)
The creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they've gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website (https://vlang.io) a beer-money level Patreon following and some corporate partnerships/sponsors. However have experienced some pretty brutal takedowns over the years, with some of the bolder claims about the language/compiler being exposed as being.
A word I keep seeing in relation to V is "aspirational" - the project aspires to be a serious language with some major features, so I think it's fair to approach it with a more critical eye than one would a kid's side-project. I think HN would have been pretty understanding if they were open about the state of the various features and were a little less defensive when they encounter articles that treat it like a Real Language and review it as such. If the authors don't want this kind of feedback they can just say front-and-centre (or on their FAQ @ https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/FAQ) "this is a toy" or "this is pre-alpha"
- OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
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Why is Vlang's autofree model not more widely used?
Autofree has existed for years and can work. Here is a demo. It is used in V's Vinix OS, Ved, and other applications. Part of the issue is there are detractors who purposefully spread misinformation nor know about its other memory options, and the other part is understanding how to use it.
- Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
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Thinking if should i continue to use zig
Another option is to write the kernel in V. Vinix is an OS written in V. You can use it for reference when building your project.
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V Language Review (2022)
And that's why vinix [1] is full of manual free call? That tells how good autofree is, isn't it? Can you compile v compiler with autofree? Last time I checked, you can't.
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Hello V-Lang
vweb, volt, and ved are not a "little more than alpha"
yes, the os is being developed in V, and it can already run bash, GCC, G++, and Doom.
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Cello – High Level C
It's a great concept, but languages like Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/), Zig (https://ziglang.org), Vlang (https://vlang.io/), etc... are already running with a similar idea to being easy to interact with C and are viable alternatives to it as well. Vlang even created its own OS, Vinix (https://github.com/vlang/vinix), to show its capabilities in this regard.
Seems to me, Cello would be more for those C programmers that didn't want to try the various alternative languages that are now out, and happen to agree with its developer's interpretation of what high level constructs would look like. The point of these alternative languages is to offer features that C doesn't have or to implement them in easier or clearer ways.
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Vinix, Operating System in the V Programming Language
Vinix shows the capabilities of V on bare metal, in additional to it being useful for high-level programming as well. https://github.com/vlang/vinix
Killed by Google
- With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
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Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!
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Google's Decision to Effectively Kill-off Small Sites
And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.
- Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Calls grow for Sundar Pichai to step down from Google CEO position
Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com
They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.
And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.
The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.
- Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
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Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.
The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.
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Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard
To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.
I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com
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Gemini Ultra Released
We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com
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Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
The website you're referring to: https://killedbygoogle.com/
What are some alternatives?
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Materialize - Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design
zig-gamedev - Main monorepo for @zig-gamedev libs and example applications
babel-plugin-superjson-next - Automatically transform your Next.js Pages to use SuperJSON
v-mode - 🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.
Ryujinx-Games-List - List of games & demos tested on Ryujinx
cfront-3 - self education and historical research of the C++ compiler cfront v3
tModLoader - A mod to make and play Terraria mods. Supports Terraria 1.4 (and earlier) installations
awesome-v - A curated list of awesome V frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
BetterJoy - Allows the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, Joycons and SNES controller to be used with CEMU, Citra, Dolphin, Yuzu and as generic XInput
procs - Unix process&system query&format lib&multi-command CLI in Nim
kotlin - The Kotlin Programming Language.