General descritpions

• Verse is a functional logic language (like Curry or Mercury)
• Verse is a declarative language: a variable names a single value, not a cell whose value changes over time
• Verse is lenient but not strict:
• Like strict: everything gets evaluated in the end
• Like lazy: functions can be called before the argument has a value
• Verse has an unusual static type system: types are firstclass values
• Verse has an effect system, rather than using monads
• Verse is open: Open spec, open-source compiler, verifier, published papers, runtime under permissive open-source license with no IP encumberances
• Mutable state, I/O, and other effects
• Pervasive transactional memory
• Structs, classes, inheritance

Ideas & visions

• Kick functional logic programming out the lab and into the mainstream

• Learnable as a first language (c.f. Javascript yes, C++ no)

• Stretches from end users to professional developers

• Transactional memory at scale

• Very strong stability guarantees

• A radical new approach to types

• Extensible: mechanisms for the language to grow over time, without breaking code

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Epic is working on Visual Verse visual scripting language

• Visual scripting is a process of using a visual programming language to create computer programs/scripts. Instead of writing lines of code You use GUI elements, connecting nodes/blocks defining behaviour & logic (Unreal Engine uses Blueprints (old Kismet) visual scripting language heavily in UE editor for most of in editor avilable tasks & scripting logic)
• there are not much informations about it beside registering trademark, recruitment posts for Fortnite (probably UEFN) 1 2, and some minor mentions/leaks related to it
• From those we know IDE for Unreal Engine for VV is in the works