The V Programming Language

> Key Features of V

> Fast compilation: ≈100k — 1.2 million loc/s

> Performance: within 3% of C

Note that these are not "features" backed by benchmarks. These is only a "whislist".

I'm intrigued by many aspects of the language: focus on staying small, simple and fast; emitting a single statically linked binary with no dependencies; no null, undefined values or behavior; immutable by default; cross-platform GUI library..

Comparison with other languages: https://vlang.io/compare

It's an ambitious vision with clearly well-thought-out design. Can't believe it's just one person behind it. I hope the project gets the support and traction it deserves.

This looks like C with many of the benefits you'd get from something like Python where strings and hashes are really easy with the built-ins methods of dealing with them.

How fast is the alpha version and has any work been made for the GUI/Graphics library?