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Why I use the V language

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  Why do I use V? It is new, not proven, nor particularly popular. In this post I will explain why I use it, and why you should too! First, a quick introduction to the language. V is, quoting from the official documentation, a "statically typed compiled programming language designed for building maintainable software. It's similar to Go and its design has also been influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and Python." . It is a modern language, and prides itself on simplicity. However, I think it achieves the balance between powerful and easy. But not every language does, in my opinion. For example, Python. The first language I learnt, you can learn the basics of Python fairly quickly, and I would imagine if I had learnt another language first I would have learnt the basics even faster. However, there are a few things I don't like about Python.  Here are two: It is interpreted. Though there exist methods to try to solve this problem, (for instance pyinstaller ), th...