There’s also VAL, one of the 80s era languages that influenced Haskell (via SISAL). Alas, outside the parallel languages community I don’t think many people are familiar with that VAL.

Variable Assembly Language!

It will work to their advantage. Anyone learning one of these language is looking for "the new hotness", and will probably become aware of the other similarly named languages in the process, and will thus look them up. JavaScript did it, how did that turn out for them?

Javascript was the only game in town in the browser for cross-browser support.

The name didn't matter at all, it could have been named Fooscript and still be popular.

Coulda named it after a skin disease!

I legitimately thought this was Vale. Rather unfortunate collision in naming

They are trying to concentrate safe systems programming in permutations of V +{a,l,e}

There is a Beef programming language ... what about Veal?

Hahaha, it would fit perfectly. We should open an issue in Beef programming language issues list to change the name because it is violating the V +{a,l,e} rule. :D

We all just have similarly good taste in naming =) party on this end of the alphabet!

Bonus: V is also known as Vlang and Vale used to be called Vlang.

Yep, then today's Vlang got to that name first, so we had to call it Vale instead!

and you can code with them inside vi or vim!

Volt

Valtown

Verve..? Virgil for sure.

Vau comes to mind.

Only allowed if it's fexpr based though.