Ask HN: V language (vlang) users, your experience of it?

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by fuzztester • 3 years ago

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drakmail2• 3 years ago

Unstable, but fun to use

fuzztester2• 3 years ago

I got the fun vibe too, though only by reading a few examples, so far.

Going to try it out.

On the fun front, it seemed a bit like my earlier simple uses of D, although D is complex or at least big, overall, compared to V.

drakmail2• 3 years ago

I highly recommend trying out this language for something non-serious, it's very enjoyable! The most important thing is not to forget that it's still a long way to version 1.0, so some terms on the website and in other marketing materials may be misleading. But at the current stage of language development, I still like it from many perspectives, so giving it a try is definitely worth it!

Tozen2• 3 years ago

Enjoy using it. Use for non-critical and various IT related type tasks. Will do more with it when it hits 1.0. Maybe at 0.5, but have to evaluate at that time. Want it to be a little more stable, so don't have to rewrite programs due to changes from earlier versions.

According to their roadmap, they will do 0.5 and then go for 1.0. Which at their pace, seems like it will be this time next year, if not earlier. They are coming along quite quickly and nicely. Seeing V people doing lots of nice things and projects with it.

vram22• 3 years ago

Interesting.

dequan• 3 years ago

I thought V has a backwards compatibility guarantee as of 3 years ago so you don't have to rewrite your programs?

https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/ba38c94a403b72222508a85704...

Tozen2• 3 years ago

There still may be minor syntax changes before the 1.0 release, but they will be handled automatically via `vfmt`, as has been done in the past.

Let's add some context here, because a lot of times people that don't use the language, can interject drama. That's not what my post was about.

The gap between version 0.3 to 0.4 appears small and haven't experienced any issues so far (0.4 just came out). "vfmt" should handle those without issue. V became beta with 0.3, so if talking 0.2 and below, it was still in alpha.

If talking 0.1 or 0.2 to 0.3 or 0.4 (alpha to beta), that becomes a depends type of thing. For simple(r) programs, likely no issues. For more complex and very large programs, the difference can mean its better to rewrite. One of the reasons can be to take advantage of newer features. This can also be a non-issue for various people that didn't start using V until version 0.3 or later, so don't have anything written in 0.1 or 0.2 nor use libraries from that far back.

It should also be noted, that 3 years ago, would mean 2020. The alpha of the language came out in 2019 (4 plus years from today), so there is going to be a natural "time gap", that is not covered.

Additionally, I rather wait for the language to be a little more stable, as to be clear what the more definitive feature set and syntax is, before using in production. Be that as it may, enjoy using the language, and have various programs using V that run without issue.

Ask HN: V language (vlang) users, your experience of it?

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