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zaxioms | 9 months ago

I'm fascinated that Epic Games are the authors. Does anyone know what their motivation for this research would be?

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troupo|9 months ago

The original claim was to create a new programming language for developing games.

Everything that has come out of Verse so far has been "oh look, I designed this language I wanted to design and the only relation it has to gaming is the title of the paper"

We don't even know if it's a good programming language for anything, as it doesn't exist outside Unreal for Fortnite

woolybully|9 months ago

Tim Sweeney & Epic are creating the language Verse whose logic functional underpinnings will make concurrency & correctness easier in Fortnite. https://youtu.be/ub-dls31Pyw