You're reading from Getting Started with V Programming An end-to-end guide to adopting the V language from basic variables and modules to advanced concurrency

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213434

Length 408 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Navule Pavan Kumar Rao

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to the V Programming Language

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to V Programming FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing V Programming

4. Section 2: Basics of V Programming

5. Chapter 3: Variables, Constants, and Code Comments

6. Chapter 4: Primitive Data Types

7. Chapter 5: Arrays and Maps

8. Chapter 6: Conditionals and Iterative Statements

9. Chapter 7: Functions

10. Chapter 8: Structs

11. Chapter 9: Modules

12. Section 3: Advanced Concepts in V Programming

13. Chapter 10: Concurrency

14. Chapter 11: Channels – An Advanced Concurrency Pattern

15. Chapter 12: Testing

16. Chapter 13: Introduction to JSON and ORM

17. Chapter 14: Building a Microservice

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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...