Tinygo

[EduardShaid]

Can we expect an analogue of the project for V, like https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo?

[JalonSolov]

In V, we call that the -native option. :-)

Seriously, one of the main reasons tinygo exists is because the executables Go normally produces are huge. V executables are already usually smaller that equivalent Go code, and with -native they are often a tiny fraction of the size.

-native is still WIP, so you can't use it for everything, yet, but as an example...

$ v examples/hello_world.v # with tcc default
$ ls -l examples/hello_world
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jamie jamie 574816 Dec 13 13:44 examples/hello_world
$ v -skip-unused examples/hello_world.v # tcc, with some unused stuff stripped
$ ls -l examples/hello_world
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jamie jamie 291496 Dec 13 13:45 examples/hello_world
$ v -skip-unused -prod examples/hello_world.v # some unused stuff stripped, then compiled with gcc with -O3
$ ls -l examples/hello_world
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jamie jamie 84968 Dec 13 13:45 examples/hello_world
$ v -native examples/hello_world.v # the option I've been talking about...
$ ls -l examples/hello_world
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jamie jamie 186 Dec 13 13:45 examples/hello_world
$

All sizes above in bytes.

[jorgeluismireles]

Where can I find what -native supports and what does not?

[JalonSolov]

There is no such list. You just have to try it and see if it works for your code. Don't expect a lot from it.

[jorgeluismireles]

Thanks. Congratulations to the V language team!