Hello World

Save this snippet into a file named hello.v and run v run hello.v. And that's it, you just wrote and executed your first V program!

You can also run the example in the browser using the Run button in the top right corner of any code snippet.

You can compile a program without execution with v hello.v. It will produce an executable named hello. You can then run it with ./hello.

See v help for all supported commands.

From the example above, you can see that functions are declared with the fn keyword. The return type is specified after the function name. In this case main doesn't return anything, so there is no return type.

As in many other languages (such as C, Go, and Rust), main is the entry point of your program.

println is one of the few built-in functions. It prints the value passed to it to standard output.

fn main() declaration can be skipped in one file programs. This is useful when writing small programs, "scripts", or just learning the language. For brevity, fn main() will be skipped in this tutorial.

This means that a "hello world" program in V is as simple as:

If you do not use explicitly fn main() {}, you need to make sure, that all your declarations, come before any variable assignment statements, or top level function calls, since V will consider everything after the first assignment/function call as part of your implicit main function.