The new V safe release of the first available language versions

V language of today released the first available V language version (pre-built binaries coming soon).

Source acquire Address: https://github.com/vlang/v/releases/tag/v0.0.12

The author provides examples of applications using V language development.

V language is a collection of new security features of the Go language simple and Rust's.

Key Features:

• Fast compiler (compiler only 400kb, and no third party reliance)
• Safety
• C / C ++ conversion

Sample code:

Database access:

struct User { /* ... */ }
struct Post { /* ... */ }
struct DB   { /* ... */ }

struct Repo <T> {
    db DB
}

fn new_repo<T>(db DB) Repo {
    return Repo<T>{db: db}
}

fn (r Repo) find_by_id(id int) T? { // `?` means the function returns an optional
    table_name := T.name // in this example getting the name of the type gives us the table name
    return r.db.query_one<T>('select * from $table_name where id = ?', id)
}

fn main() {
    db := new_db()
    users_repo := new_repo<User>(db)
    posts_repo := new_repo<Post>(db)
    user := users_repo.find_by_id(1) or {
        eprintln('User not found')
        return
    }
    post := posts_repo.find_by_id(1) or {
        eprintln('Post not found')
        return
    }
} 

Web development:

struct Story {
    title string
}

// Fetches top HN stories in 8 coroutines 
fn main() {
    resp := http.get('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json')?
    ids := json.decode([]int, resp.body)?
    mut cursor := 0
    for _ in 0..8 {
        go fn() {
            for  {
                lock { // Without this lock the program will not compile 
                    if cursor >= ids.len {
                        break
                    }
                    id := ids[cursor]
                    cursor++
                }
                resp := http.get('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/$id.json')? 
                story := json.decode(Story, resp.body)?
                println(story.title)
            }
        }()
    }
    runtime.wait() // Waits for all coroutines to finish 
}