Awesome V

A curated list of awesome V frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

V is a simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software.

Contents

• Applications
  • Interpreters/Compilers
  • Operating systems/Kernels
  • Package managers
  • Editors
  • Web
  • Graphics
  • Games
  • Command-line
  • Project management
  • Serialization
• Libraries
  • Command line interface (CLI) / Terminal / Shell
  • Text processing
  • Graphics
  • Game development
  • Web
  • Database clients
  • Audio
  • Operating system
  • Networking
  • Serial Communications
  • Automation
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • IRC
  • Files
  • Eventing
  • User Interface toolkits
  • Scientific computing
  • Utility
  • Telecommunications
• Other
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Editor plugins
  • GitHub actions
  • Videos
  • Programming contests
  • Tutorials
  • IDEs with V
  • Online IDEs with V
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Communities
  • Forums
  • Operating Systems & OS Development Examples

Applications

Interpreters/Compilers

• v - V itself. Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software.
• vbf - A brainfuck interpreter/compiler.
• monkey_v - Implementation of Thorsten Ball's Monkey Language in V.
• vcc - A C compiler written in V.
• Vork - Alternative V compiler/interpreter written in Python.
• Stas - A werid little stack based programming language written in V, created to learn the ins and outs of compilers.

Operating systems/Kernels

• Vinix - Small and simple OS in V. Runs bash.

Package managers

• vpm - The V language package management tool written in V.

Editors

• ved - 1 MB text editor written in V with hardware accelerated text rendering. Compiles in <1s.
• vee - V Editor Engine. A V module providing the guts of a text editor. Comes with a TUI editor example.
• text_editor - Small text editor from the official V examples.

Web

• vorum - Open-source blogging/forum software written in V.
• vblog - A simple, fast and responsive blogging system.
• Heroku Buildpack for V - Deploy V apps on Heroku.
• Vlang Benchmarks Visualization - Fancy statistics and plots for Is V still fast?.
• Vieter - Archlinux repository server & package build system, written in V.
• VTik - TikTok and Twitter video downloader app (CLI / Telegram Bot).
• Vebview.JS - Electron/Neutralino.JS alternative written in V.

Graphics

• vRayTracer - A simple ray tracer written in V.

Games

• Boundstone - High Performance / Fast Compilation / Lightweight Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Server.
• v-pong - A classic paddle game brought back to life through the power of V.
• minesweeper - A simple Minesweeper game written in vlang.
• flappylearning-v - A simple flappy learning demo in v. ( Archived )
• Kurarin - osu! beatmap visualizer made in V. Example video.

Command-line

• HN-top - A simple command to list most recent news from hacker-news.
• vast - A simple tool for vlang, generate v source file to AST json file.
• symlinker - A small Linux tool to manage symlinks.
• runner - A tool that automates running/compiling code written in various programming languages.
• vcredits - A tool that creates CREDITS from LICENSE files of dependencies.
• vinit - A tool to generate v projects.
• vspect - A tool to inspect vlang source file. ( Archived )
• vLogQL - A tiny command-line utility to query LogQL APIs.
• klonol - CLI tool to help you "clone all" git repositories belonging to you. Works with GitHub and Gitea.
• vqrcode - CLI for creating QR Codes.
• verve - Simple and fast static file server.

Project management

• vset - A project setup and configuration tool for V projects.

Serialization

• vproto - Protobuf compiler and runtime in V.
• v-toxml - XML Serialization library for V.
• vlang-yaml - A V-native YAML reader, incl. YAML-to-JSON converter.

Libraries

Command line interface (CLI) / Terminal / Shell

• boxx - Create highly customizable terminal boxes that also look great! 📦
• lol - V version of lolcat (text/character rainbowizer).
• progressbar - An easy to use V library for creating progress bars in cli.
• termtable - V Terminal Tables: Simple and highly customizable library to display tables in the terminal.
• vargs - V library for parsing arguments from argv-like arrays. ( Archived )
• vesseract - V wrapper for Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition).
• spinners - Create spinners in your terminal!

Text processing

• v-regex - A simple regex library for V.
• chalk - Colorize strings in the terminal.
• crayon - Paint your terminal output like Picasso. 🖍️🎨
• cjson - Wrap cJSON for vlang.
• ascii_robot - ASCII Robot generator written in V.
• iconv - Wrap iconv for vlang.
• Rosie-RPL - A Rosie Pattern Language (RPL) implementation.
• strfmt - Tiny and fast string formatting library ideal for templating.

Graphics

• vgl - Low-level graphics API access.
• viup - V wrapper for the C-based cross-platform UI library, IUP.
• vsdl - V wrapper for the C-based SDL library.
• vsdl2 - A libSDL2 wrapper.
• V Earcut - fast (real-time) polygon triangulation library based on mapbox/Earcut to handle holes, twisted polygons, degeneracies and self-intersections.
• vgui - Minimal, lightweight and cross-platform GUI library.

Game development

• engine - WIP Vulkan in V.
• raylib.v - Updated V bindings for raylib with plans for complete cross-platform support.
• vraylib - V wrapper (bindings) for raylib, the C game development framework.

Web

• vex - Web framework written on V inspired by Express and Sinatra.
• vweb - V's built-in web framework. Used by Vorum.
• validate - A simple library to validate strings in V.
• valval - Web framework written in V, improved by vweb.
• v-jsonrpc - Basic JSON-RPC 2.0-compliant server written on V.
• pico.v - A web server in V based on picoev and picohttpparser.
• vxbloauth - A minimalistic Xbox Live authenticator for vweb.
• vcurrency - API wrapper (written in V) for https://api.exchangeratesapi.io.
• vigest - Simple client for digest authentication (written in V).

Database clients

• redis - Redis client for V, written in V.
• vsql - A sql query builder for V.
• vmemcached - Memcached client for V, written in V.

Audio

• vave - A crazy simple library for reading/writing WAV files in V. 🌊
• vspeech - Complete V bindings for Mozilla's DeepSpeech TensorFlow based Speech-to-Text library. 📢📜
• v-miniaudio - Bindings for the excellent miniaudio C audio library.

Operating system

• clipboard - V module for interacting with the OS clipboard. Fully cross-platform.
• vlipboard - An easy to use wrapper of clipboard with Wayland and Termux support.
• mmap - Provide native V-lang support for memory-mapping on Linux and Windows.

Networking

• vmq - V wrapper For ZMQ (aka ZeroMQ, ØMQ, 0MQ: a high-performance asynchronous messaging library).

Serial Communications

• vserialport - V wrapper for libserialport.
• vserialx - A tiny (wrapper) serial communication library for Linux written in V.
• vi2c - A tiny (wrapper) library for I2C serial communication for Linux written in V.

Automation

• vrobot - Desktop automation for V. Only supports Windows.

Telegram

• vgram - Telegram bot library.

Discord

• viscord - Pretty basic library for connecting to the Discord gateway.
• discord.v - User-friendly Discord bot library.
• vord - Library for interacting with user account endpoints and gateway (Self-bots, custom clients, etc).

IRC

• vitric - A transparent IRC library.

Files

• v-mime - MIME detection library for V.
• vmon - Asynchronously watch for file changes in a directory. The module is essentially a V wrapper for septag/dmon. It works for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Eventing

• eventbus - A simple event bus system for V.

User Interface toolkits

• V UI - Integrated cross platform UI toolkit for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and the web.
• vgtk3 - A wrapper for GTK3 in V.
• vig - Bindings for Dear ImGui GUI toolkit.
• vnk - Bindings for Nuklear GUI toolkit.
• mui - A Cross-Platform UI library for Windows, Linux, Android and Web.

Scientific computing

• vsl - A pure-V scientific library with a great variety of functions.
• vtl - Numerical computing library supporting n-dimensional data structure, backed by LAPACKE and OpenBLAS.
• vplot - V wrapper for GNU Plot (gnuplot_i).

Utility

• range - Functionality of Python's range() in V.
• random - An all purpose random library written in V.
• vdotenv - Support for .env files which loads environment variables.
• vaker - A light-weight compile-time-generated data faker written in V.
• vexc - Exceptions for V using setjmp/longjmp.

Telecommunications

• vagi - Asterisk FastAGI library in V.

Other

Syntax highlighting

• v-vim - Support for V syntax highlighting in Vim.
• vim-v - Quality syntax highlighting for the V programming language.
• vscode-vlang - V Language extension for Visual Studio Code.
• kate-syntax-highlight-v - V syntax highlighting for Kate.
• scite-v-support - V syntax highlighting for SciTE.
• language-v - V language support for Atom (port of vscode-vlang).
• vlang-mode.el - Emacs major mode for the V programming language.
• v-mode - Emacs major mode for the V programming language.
• vlang-sublime - Sublime text 3 Support for the Vlang Programming Language.

Editor plugins

• vim-vtools - V tools for Vim, including auto formatting.
• sublime-v - Fully-featured Sublime Text 3 package for the V Programming Language.

GitHub actions

• setup-v - GitHub action to install and use V in your workflow.
• action-create-v-docs - GitHub action to create documentation for V modules.

Videos

• V Programming Tutorials
• The V Programming Language

Programming contests

• Rosetta Code V - Solutions for Rosetta Code in V.
• Advent of Code 2019 - Solution of Advent of Code 2019 in V.
• SoloLearn Coding Challenges - Implementation of the SoloLearn coding challenges in V.

Tutorials

• Learn V in Y Minutes
• V by Example - V book as GitBook.
• V learning notes - Personal learning notes in Chinese.
• V for Node Devs - Vlang for node js developers.

IDEs with V

• Vide

Online IDEs with V

• V Playground

Articles

• An introduction to V
• Todo App with V

Books

• Getting Started with V Programming - Navule Pavan Kumar Rao - Packt 2021 Dec - Introductory book on V.

Communities

• V Community

Forums

• r/vlang
• Stack Overflow

Operating Systems & OS Development Examples

• Simple Linux kernel module example - Demonstration & test of writing a very simple Linux kernel module, using V.