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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 milli

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.