Key Features of V
- Simplicity: the language can be learned in less than an hour
- Fast compilation: ≈100k — 1.2 million loc/s
- Easy to develop: V compiles itself in less than a second
- Performance: within 3% of C
- Safety: no null, no globals, no undefined behavior, immutability by default
- C to V translation
- Hot code reloading
- Cross-platform UI library
- Built-in graphics library
- Easy cross compilation
- REPL
- Built-in ORM
- C and JavaScript backends
A stable 0.2 release is planned for June 2020. Right now V is in an alpha stage.
Installing V from source
Linux, macOS, Windows, *BSD, Solaris, WSL, Android, Raspbian
git clone https://github.com/vlang/v
cd v
make
That's it! Now you have a V executable at [path to V repo]/v.
[path to V repo] can be anywhere.
(On Windows make means running make.bat, so make sure you use cmd.exe.)
After the above, you can try doing: ./v run examples/hello_world.v on Unix,
or .\v.exe run examples\hello_world.v on Windows.
V is being constantly updated. To update V, simply run:
v up
C compiler
You'll need Clang or GCC or Visual Studio. If you are doing development, you most likely already have one of those installed.
Otherwise, follow these instructions:
Symlinking
NB: it is highly recommended, that you put V on your PATH. That saves
you the effort to type in the full path to your v executable everytime.
V provides a convenience v symlink command to do that more easily.
On Unix systems, it creates a /usr/local/bin/v symlink to your
executable. To do that, run:
sudo ./v symlink
On Windows, start a new shell with administrative privileges, for
example by Windows Key, then type cmd.exe, right click on its menu
entry, and choose Run as administrator. In the new administrative
shell, cd to the path, where you have compiled v.exe, then type:
.\v.exe symlink
That will make v available everywhere, by adding it to your PATH. Please restart your shell/editor after that, so that it can pick the new PATH variable.
NB: there is no need to run v symlink more than once - v will
continue to be available, even after v up, restarts and so on.
You only need to run it again, if you decide to move the V repo
folder somewhere else.
Docker
Expand Docker instructions
git clone https://github.com/vlang/v
cd v
docker build -t vlang .
docker run --rm -it vlang:latest
v
Docker with Alpine/musl:
git clone https://github.com/vlang/v
cd v
docker build -t vlang --file=Dockerfile.alpine .
docker run --rm -it vlang:latest
/usr/local/v/v
Testing and running the examples
Make sure V can compile itself:
v -o v2 cmd/v
$ v
V 0.1.x
Use Ctrl-C or `exit` to exit
>>> println('hello world')
hello world
>>>
cd examples
v hello_world.v && ./hello_world # or simply
v run hello_world.v # this builds the program and runs it right away
v word_counter.v && ./word_counter cinderella.txt
v run news_fetcher.v
v run tetris/tetris.v
In order to build Tetris and anything else using the graphics module, you will need to install glfw and freetype libraries.
If you plan to use the http package, you also need to install OpenSSL on non-Windows systems.
macOS:
brew install glfw freetype openssl
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libfreetype6-dev libssl-dev
Arch/Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 freetype2
Fedora:
sudo dnf install glfw glfw-devel freetype-devel
Windows:
v setup-freetype
glfw dependency will be removed soon.
V UI
Troubleshooting
Please see the Troubleshooting section on our wiki page