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Epic announces Verse, "the programming language of the metaverse".

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2 comments, last by Nagle 1 year, 5 months ago

Here's the pitch deck from Epic. See what you can make of this.

That is a very strange language. It's very Haskell.

The pitch deck is all about execution. 63 slides and they don't even get to data representation. Does this have objects? Structs? Traits? Closures? What?

There's no motivation for how this is is used in games, or why it's a good idea. Now, what they must have in mind is lots of tiny programs, each associated with some game objects. Those have to interact, which is a tough problem. This is supposed to help. But how?

Yet Sweeney signed off on this. It must somehow be good for game programming

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Nagle said:
Yet Sweeney signed off on this.

Sure? Looks like fake / trolling / internal stuff not meant for public.
Mixing ugly fonts, colors, and such design issues.

JoeJ said:

Nagle said:
Yet Sweeney signed off on this.

Sure? Looks like fake / trolling / internal stuff not meant for public.
Mixing ugly fonts, colors, and such design issues.

Huh? It's a theory paper on logic programming.

Nagle said:
It's a theory paper on logic programming.

Yeah, but the design is fishy even for that. No design would be fine, but bad / amateurish design raises doubts Epic would do this with an intent to show it off in public.
So i guess it's internal brainstorming at most, but no serious plan yet.

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