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Getting Started with V Programming

By : Navule Pavan Kumar Rao
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Book Image

Getting Started with V Programming

4 (1)
By: Navule Pavan Kumar Rao

Overview of this book

A new language on the block, V comes with a promising set of features such as fast compilation and interoperability with other programming languages. This is the first book on the V programming language, packed with concise information and a walkthrough of all the features you need to know to get started with the language. The book begins by covering the fundamentals to help you learn about the basic features of V and the suite of built-in libraries available within the V ecosystem. You'll become familiar with primitive data types, declaring variables, arrays, and maps. In addition to basic programming, you'll develop a solid understanding of the building blocks of programming, including functions, structs, and modules in the V programming language. As you advance through the chapters, you'll learn how to implement concurrency in V Programming, and finally learn how to write test cases for functions. This book takes you through an end-to-end project that will guide you to build fast and maintainable RESTful microservices by leveraging the power of V and its built-in libraries. By the end of this V programming book, you'll be well-versed with the V programming language and be able to start writing your own programs and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to the V Programming Language
4
Section 2: Basics of V Programming
12
Section 3: Advanced Concepts in V Programming

Installing V on the Windows OS

Windows is the most popular OS used by the majority of developers and V supports it. We will proceed with the installation of the V programming language on the Windows 10 OS. There are two ways to install V on the Windows 10 OS:

  • Install V from portable binaries (these can be downloaded from the official V website at https://vlang.io/).
  • Install V from the latest source code (this can be cloned from V's official GitHub repository at https://github.com/vlang/v).

Let's take a look at both of those installation methods in more detail. You can skip the alternate approach if you follow any one of the two installation methods on the Windows OS.

Approach 1 – installing V from portable binaries on the Windows OS

In general, portable installations give you the flexibility to simply extract the software packaged as an archive to the location of your choice without actually modifying any system behavior or registry settings...