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Simple, fast, safe, compiled language similar to Go for developing maintainable software.

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Simplicity

V is simple and powerful.

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Fast as C

V is easier than C and fast like C.

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Fast compile time

V has the fastest compile time over many of major languages.

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Cross-platform

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GUI editor

A visual editor for building native GUI apps (pre-alpha), it will use WinAPI/GDI+ on Windows, Cocoa on macOS. On Linux custom drawing is used.

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Generics

V has generics.

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Safety

  • No null
  • No global variables
  • No undefined values
  • No undefined behavior
  • No variable shadowing
  • Bounds checking
  • Option/Result types
  • Generics wip
  • Immutable variables by default
  • Pure functions by default
  • Immutable structs by default
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Vaporware

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Alpha stage

V 1.0 release is planned for 2020.

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Unclear how it manages memory

They do not state clearly how memory is managed - manually like in C/C++, garbage collector, owner-based like in Rust.

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Strings are simple byte arrays

For example, trying to get the length of a string just returns the number of bytes in UTF-8, not the number of characters.

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No method overloading

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so far so good
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Dependency on C compiler. Errors errors everywhere. (Website) Full of lies.
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It mostly doesn't work, and when it does, it is horribly inefficient.
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