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

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

Reinventing the programming paradigm has been Tim Sweeney's hobby horse since before 2006: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/crg/papers/sweeney06games.p...

After Epic's wild success hes now got a bit of cash to splash on making his dream a reality :-)

Yeah Sweeney was really active on the programming theory site http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

It looks like it's currently down (not sure if a glitch or what).

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

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