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It's cool to finally get some more details on this language. They showed some slides of it being used in Fortnite last year: https://mobile.twitter.com/saji8k/

It's cool to finally get some more details on this language. They showed some slides of it being used in Fortnite last year: https://mobile.twitter.com/saji8k/status/1339709691564179464?s=20 https://mobile.twitter.com/saji8k/status/1339709691564179464... I believe it has roots in (but quite different from) Skookumscript https://skookumscript.com/about/look/ https://skookumscript.com/about/look/

vcxuhyij 4y ago
The code shown in those images is not in the programming language that is being introduced/created now by SPJ. It is clearly a separate (and not functional) scripting project.
- bmn__ 4y ago
  https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FEpeZMhDUwAAYBWJ.jpg https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FEpeZMhDUwAAY... The screenshot says "BoxFight.verse". Either Unreal has two separate new programming languages both called Verse, or you're plain wrong.
  - tgbrtjds 4y ago
    I don't know why I bother, but: The screenshot you linked to shows boolean variables being defined ("bool") while the new SPJ language being discussed here very conspicuously lacks a boolean type. That fact alone is enough to convince me that there is an "old", less cool, less ambitious Verse language, with different syntax etc. which is about to be replaced by (or as Tim says in tweet, get "converged with") the new SPJ Verse. They apparently like the name/branding so much that they want to keep using it, even though the fundamental principles of the language are going to be different. That does seem potentially confusing but it's their business. After all, the old verse never got released to the public. So it seems totally clear to me that a previous, less complex and ambitious, scripting language called "verse", which has been around for a while and never really gone anywhere, is going to be replaced by the new SPJ functional language "verse".
    - bmitc 4y ago
      https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1602182120708915201?s=20&t=YgZvwsTaHcTcWnDe_WQB8w https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/160218212070891520... > We're more than a year away from an open source implementation that's converged with what's in Fortnite. In 2023 we'll be giving lots of talks and likely releasing some of the research pieces.
- sweetsocks21 4y ago
  I believe it is the same. Tim's Twitter has a lot of references to it: https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1595500621372788746 https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/15955006213... https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1602182120708915201 https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/16021821207... You can find more information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uefn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uefn/ I believe they've been using Fortnite as a testing ground for a while now, to hammer out the design.

vcxuhyij 4y ago

The code shown in those images is not in the programming language that is being introduced/created now by SPJ. It is clearly a separate (and not functional) scripting project.

bmn__ 4y ago
https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FEpeZMhDUwAAYBWJ.jpg https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FEpeZMhDUwAAY... The screenshot says "BoxFight.verse". Either Unreal has two separate new programming languages both called Verse, or you're plain wrong.
- tgbrtjds 4y ago
  I don't know why I bother, but: The screenshot you linked to shows boolean variables being defined ("bool") while the new SPJ language being discussed here very conspicuously lacks a boolean type. That fact alone is enough to convince me that there is an "old", less cool, less ambitious Verse language, with different syntax etc. which is about to be replaced by (or as Tim says in tweet, get "converged with") the new SPJ Verse. They apparently like the name/branding so much that they want to keep using it, even though the fundamental principles of the language are going to be different. That does seem potentially confusing but it's their business. After all, the old verse never got released to the public. So it seems totally clear to me that a previous, less complex and ambitious, scripting language called "verse", which has been around for a while and never really gone anywhere, is going to be replaced by the new SPJ functional language "verse".
  - bmitc 4y ago
    https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1602182120708915201?s=20&t=YgZvwsTaHcTcWnDe_WQB8w https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/160218212070891520... > We're more than a year away from an open source implementation that's converged with what's in Fortnite. In 2023 we'll be giving lots of talks and likely releasing some of the research pieces.
sweetsocks21 4y ago
I believe it is the same. Tim's Twitter has a lot of references to it: https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1595500621372788746 https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/15955006213... https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1602182120708915201 https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/16021821207... You can find more information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uefn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uefn/ I believe they've been using Fortnite as a testing ground for a while now, to hammer out the design.