Site Map - skip to main content

Hacker Public Radio

Your ideas, projects, opinions - podcasted.

New episodes every weekday Monday through Friday.
This page was generated by The HPR Robot at

hpr4025 :: Testing V language

I tried V, a new experimental programming language

<< First, < Previous, , Latest >>

Thumbnail of Celeste
Hosted by Celeste on Friday, 2024-01-05 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
v, programming, experimental. (Be the first).
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr4025

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. Play now:

Duration: 00:16:52

Programming 101.

A series focusing on concepts and the basics of programming

Pros

  • Strong static typing
  • compiles to C, no useless complexity like the JVM. Strong foundation, C is here to stay and compiles to most obscure architectures
  • small binary size
  • pattern matching and sum types
  • immutability by default
  • option/result types
  • compile time reflection
  • most Rust features, but memory management is automatic via GC or -autofree. Really useful for GUI programs

Cons

  • still in beta
  • wants to be "clean", but they're adding too many features
    • database ORM into the language
    • GPU shaders

Comments

Subscribe to the comments RSS feed.

Leave Comment

Note to Verbose Commenters
If you can't fit everything you want to say in the comment below then you really should record a response show instead.

Note to Spammers
All comments are moderated. All links are checked by humans. We strip out all html. Feel free to record a show about yourself, or your industry, or any other topic we may find interesting. We also check shows for spam :).

Provide feedback
Your Name/Handle:
Title:
Comment:
Anti Spam Question: What does the letter P in HPR stand for?
Are you a spammer?
Who is the host of this show?
What does HPR mean to you?