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Jun 20, 2022 at 00:47
An excellent review of the V language and the features it promotes: https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html The code samples are a great example of how you do PL work: you learn about the intended semantics and try to write programs that are broken in interesting ways.
V Language Review (2022)
V is a programming language promising to be “Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software.” V has a controversial past but what is the state of V in 2022?

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