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Line 29: ==History== According to various sources, the new language was created as a result of frustration with existing languages being used for personal projects.<ref name="SYNCS 2023">{{cite web \|title=How To Maintain And Iterate With V - SYNCS 2023 (Sydney Computing Society at the University of Sydney)\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchEsYwA74Q \|website=YouTube \| date=18 October 2023 \|access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>{{sfn\|Chakraborty\|2023}}{{Sfn\|Trex\|2024}} The language was originally intended for personal use, but after it was mentioned publicly and gained interest, it was decided to make it public. V was initially created to develop a desktop messaging client named Volt.<ref name="hackaday"/> On public release, the compiler was written in V, and could [[Self-hosting (compilers)\|compile itself]].{{Sfn\|Rao\|2021}}{{sfn\|Chakraborty\|2023}} Key design goals in creating V were being easy to learn and use, higher readability, fast compiling, increased safety, efficient development, [[Cross-platform software\|cross-platform]] usability, improved [[C (programming language)\|C]] [[interoperability]], better [[Error detection and correction\|error handling]], modern features, and more maintainable software.{{Sfn\|Independent Laboratory\|2020}}{{Sfn\|Lyons\|2022}}<ref name="nasufi"/><ref>{{cite web \|title=V language: simple like Go, small binary like Rust\|url=https://techracho.bpsinc.jp/hachi8833/2021_03_09/89457/ \|website=TechRacho \|access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref> V is released and developed through [[GitHub]],<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://ossinsight.io/analyze/vlang/v#overview \|title=GitHub Programming Languages (repository details) \|via=[[Open-source software\|OSS]] Insight using [[TiDB]]}}</ref><ref name="hackaday"/> and maintained by developers and contributors internationally.{{Sfn\|Rao\|2021}}{{Sfn\|Trex\|2024}} It is among the languages that have been listed on the [[TIOBE index]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=TIOBE Index \|url=https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index \|publisher=[[TIOBE index\|TIOBE]]\|website=tiobe \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250411043213/https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/\|archive-date=11 April 2025\|access-date=11 April 2025}}</ref> Line 186: * [https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md Documentation] * [https://modules.vlang.io/ Modules] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchEsYwA74Q Video: How To Maintain And Iterate With V (Sydney Computing Society)] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIAcNp9bJs Video: A small presentation of V's features at IBM] [[Category:2019 software]]

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