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0 pointslf-non3y ago0 comments

Quite a bit of work has indeed gone into the language, and what has been accomplished is no mean feat, but the myriad open bugs [1] around core features of the compiler do not inspire confidence.

It'd be better if the documentation reflected that the language was in an alpha state rather than touting stability guarantees etc.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lab...

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amedvednikov3y ago

All big projects have open GitHub issues. You just linked to 500 open and 3000 closed bugs in V.

For example, Rust has 8000 open/35000 closed. Yet it's a very mature language.

V is very stable for its age. The compiler can build itself since the release (it now has 220k lines of V!) and we have big projects like the Vinix OS written entirely in V, and it can already run GCC/g++ and Doom for example.

lf-nonOP3y ago

Ok, I'll try it out once more. Last I tried it a simple program I wrote using the ui toolkit was crashing for some issue I couldn't quite figure out. Maybe things have substantially improved since.

ruune3y ago

I had the same experience. Tried out V a couple of weeks ago because I needed a really simple GUI application. Compiling example code resulted in errors I couldn't understand nor google. I enjoyed playing around with V until that point, but went back to Go and built my stuff with some giant UI library into a 10mb binary that at least worked how it should. I like V though so I will try it out again sometime

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Brian_K_White3y ago

It's definitely not anyone's fault for not taking this seriously.

I thought it was a gag and only these comments make me think it might possibly be a real language.

ylluminate3y ago

Definitely real and definitely awesome. Give it a try - it's very quick to compile from source (git clone; make - all in roughly under a few seconds).

ylluminate3y ago

Nice to see there are some small projects (program) that have been running for 2 years (backend services) written on very early V. Quite interesting insomuch that when you get something compiled that does what you want, it works very well.

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0 pointslf-non3y ago0 comments

Quite a bit of work has indeed gone into the language, and what has been accomplished is no mean feat, but the myriad open bugs [1] around core features of the compiler do not inspire confidence.

It'd be better if the documentation reflected that the language was in an alpha state rather than touting stability guarantees etc.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+lab...

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amedvednikov3y ago

All big projects have open GitHub issues. You just linked to 500 open and 3000 closed bugs in V.

For example, Rust has 8000 open/35000 closed. Yet it's a very mature language.

lf-nonOP3y ago

Ok, I'll try it out once more. Last I tried it a simple program I wrote using the ui toolkit was crashing for some issue I couldn't quite figure out. Maybe things have substantially improved since.

ruune3y ago

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Brian_K_White3y ago

It's definitely not anyone's fault for not taking this seriously.

I thought it was a gag and only these comments make me think it might possibly be a real language.

ylluminate3y ago

Definitely real and definitely awesome. Give it a try - it's very quick to compile from source (git clone; make - all in roughly under a few seconds).

ylluminate3y ago

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