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Coreutils, written in the V language

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Why is this being posted? This project looks to have around an hour of effort invested into it so far. Very, very, very few utilities are done and the ones that are are just a few lines of code due to their simplicity.

I'm normally very welcoming of projects posted on HN but this is almost nothing. I clicked around through several directories to look at code before seeing the completion table in the README and got upset when I saw that none of the directories had source files in them.

Think it is more about the language itself and getting people interested enough to contribute to a simple project. Personally i'd never heard of V before and found it interesting to check out. Downloaded prebuilt compiler binary and had a hello world running in a few minutes. Built and played the Tetris example a few minutes later.

The project sounds very ambitious and is trying to target many platforms and many use cases.. my worry is it's trying to do too much too soon. Still, seems well worth keeping an eye on.

V has been around for a while now, and a few years ago it was accused of being vaporware due to its many outlandish claims and very little to show for it:

https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23

It's 2 years since that was posted... anything changed much?

It seems that most if not all of those criticisms still apply. I replicated the speed, valgrind, and dependency tests here.

Take a look now, it's up to 53 commits already + a solid PR: https://github.com/vlang/coreutils/commits/main

Encouraging!

This only list 5 tools, some of which are `true`, `false` and `yes`.

Incredible how you can get 30+ stars just for creating the right directories.

All publicity is good publicity. Grandiose claims get hype and stick, refutations and "it's not completely ready yet" get much less attention.

I remember that the V language itself has pulled this stunt several times.

Check again... https://github.com/vlang/coreutils/commits/main

And a nice in progress PR: https://github.com/vlang/coreutils/pulls

I think this is pretty cool for such a short period of time. Lots of excitement from everyone on Discord as far as this project goes for not just Vinix, but for general coreutils implementation for *nix.

V for Vaporware

Don't simply parrot the same line. I used to believe that, until I recently checked the project out again -- they seem to have come a long way. It's pretty impressive.

I thought so too, but looking through the V repo looks like it has come a long way

and yet it is better than rust/zig/jai

jealousy is not a good thing my friend

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