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capableweb on Aug 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The V Programming Language 0.4

> this language has literally no unique attributes that would make it different than D or Go

I'm not familiar with D, but compared to Golang, it seems to have a bunch of goodies compared to it. Small list: immutability by default for lots of things, no null, small and fast compiler, "4 ways to manage memory", hot code reloading and repl.

These are just the ones I could find on a quick skim, I'm sure there is more.

> Not trying to dissuade you from it

You are literally saying that it's not "interesting to my eyes" but then before that you say "you won’t improve as a developer from it at all", how is this not trying to dissuade someone?

ptx on Aug 28, 2023 [–]

> small and fast compiler

Go's compiler is famously fast, isn't it? I don't know about small, but that only seems relevant if you're working on the compiler itself.

> "4 ways to manage memory"

People complain about D having 2 ways to manage memory, so isn't this twice as bad?

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