V is a simple language for building maintainable programs. Despite being simple, V gives a lot of power to the developer and can be used in pretty much every field, including systems programming, webdev, gamedev, GUI, mobile (wip), science, embedded, tooling, etc. V is very similar to Go. If you know Go, you already know ≈80% of V.

V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style. Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC. The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.

Key Features of V:

Simplicity: the language can be learned in less than an hour
Fast compilation: ≈110k loc/s with a Clang backend, ≈1 million loc/s with native and tcc backends (Intel i5-7500, SSD, no optimization) (demo video)
Easy to develop: V compiles itself in less than a second
Performance: as fast as C (V's main backend compiles to human readable C)
Safety: no null, no globals, no undefined behavior, immutability by default
C to V translation
Hot code reloading
Innovative memory management (demo video)
Cross-platform UI library
Built-in graphics library
Easy cross compilation
REPL
Built-in ORM
Built-in web framework
C and JavaScript backends

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