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Richard de Wit • Edited

Also the new language V, it was originally named Volt. Why, just why?! The author is even aware it's un-google-able:

Why "V"?

Initially the language had the same name as the product it was created for: Volt. The extension was ".v", I didn't want to mess up git history, so I decided to name it V :)

It's a simple name that reflects the simplicity of the language, and it's easy to pronounce for everyone in the world.

Please note that the name of the language is "V", not "Vlang" or "V-Lang" etc.

The name is not very searchable (like Go), so use #vlang on Twitter, vlang on Google etc.

I mean, come on. Just keep it named Volt and change the extension to .vt or something... It even sounded cooler and think of the logos/artwork possible. Well it's too late now.

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Mark Railton

Possibly changed it as Volt is a templating language used for some PHP frameworks, primarily Phalcon.