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This HN story on Verse 3 months ago has a detailed PDF slide presentation and 376 comments: Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]

• exsf0859 4y ago
  Thanks for this link, very helpful in understanding the Verse language! Verse-as-a-scripting-language-for-a-game-engine is an interesting experiment. The million script writers who use it are not going to have any understanding of the functional language underpinnings. They're going to copy-and-paste until things work. There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults. I guess Tim Sweeney has a long history of successfully using exotic custom scripting languages in game engines, from ZZT to various generations of UnrealScript. So he probably knows what he's doing.
  • fsloth 4y ago
    "There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults." I'm willing to hedge my bets that an immutable functional language has a much higher tendency to remain legible than something else. But it will be a very interesting experiment in the history of computer languages IMO.
    • exsf0859 4y ago
      I also felt Tim was tempting fate when he said "You can import directly from a self published URL. Of course it's the responsibility of the publisher to never change the semantics of that code in an incompatible way." I just can't imagine that working at scale. I bet they add semantic versioning support pretty quickly.