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OK since nobody is commenting... my first impression.

Homepage is old fashioned, I loved := Pascal assignment, didn't love {} curly braces... why do we need those.

I went through few code examples and they were very clean, probably would be good to show more on homepage.

I will spend more time learning about your goals and such, which is what would help me understand it better.


Be sure to actually run the compiler and check that it actually does what it claims. Let us know how it goes.


I tried it a few months ago and it generally worked fine, although it had rough edges.


Agree with you. There are also lots of examples to review on rosetta code[1] and exercism[2], in addition to the ones in their GitHub[3].

[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:V_(Vlang)

[2] https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang (2025)

[3] https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples


I asked Gemini to summarize advantages and it did decent job:

Based on the information from the V programming language website, here is a summary of its key benefits and advantages:

Simplicity and Maintainability: V is designed with a small number of keywords, making it easy to learn, often in a single weekend. This simplicity leads to readable and maintainable code.

Safety: The language incorporates several safety features, including bounds checking, mandatory error checks, and a default for immutable variables. It also has no undefined values.

Performance: V is a fast, compiled language with minimal memory allocations. It boasts impressive compilation speeds of 80k to 400k lines of code per second.

Flexible Memory Management: It offers a default minimal tracing garbage collector, an experimental autofree mode, and the option for manual memory management.

Painless Deployment: V compiles applications into a single binary with no external dependencies, which simplifies deployment and allows for easy cross-compilation.

Built-in Tools: The language comes with a variety of built-in tools, such as a testing framework, a code profiler, and an automatic documentation generator.

Specific Features: Other notable features include hot code reloading for instant changes, a powerful cross-platform graphics library, and a lightweight, cross-platform GUI library (V UI).


So this is like MDX, but compiled... I always liked MDX and think this is good way to boost Markdown because, often we don't need much more then Markdown.


MDX does needs to be done at compile time because MDX contains unsafe evals in its syntax via imports and string interpolation.

I created a library for runtime MDX because of that: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-markdown-with-mdx


yes like MDX, but not compiled :)


You really have to be from the Balkans to do something like this :)


All that K-Pop makes people jump too much


Yeah we need that... and more HTML it is, the better.


I find Manifest.js really gives me that minimalist feel that you are going for here.

I would find it more palatable if format was JSON or YML or ideally TOML right...

It is definitely interesting what you are doing and you know, thanks for sharing. Not for everyone but good to see what and how people are thinking.


Excellent!

I made something similar inspired by this few times in the past.

I think this is already quite perfect, ambient music I can provide myself.

While I did thought of new features, they are really not needed. I especially like coffee shop mode. I often feel self conscious about things I am writing, so hiding text is fantastic.


Overall it looks and feels good. I gave it a problem, like, what was it... to update website pages to use single layout, it wasn't trivial but it wasn't that hard. It burned through 7M tokens and like 20-25mins didn't accomplished it. I stopped it because I didn't want to waste more resources.

I think with better prompting on my end, as I have good experience with Gemini, this will be awesome. You probably could tweak a lot on your end as well, don't let it get stuck in cycles.


Now this is serious business, congrats on the project! I can see how this is perfect fit for elixir...


Turbo Pascal as ideal IDE...


Funny thing is I created the Turbo Pascal blue yellow colorsxcheme for Zed and have been using it for the past 6 months or so.


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