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I'm fascinated that Epic Games are the authors. Does anyone know what their motivation for this research would be?
by zaxioms 1y ago
I'm fascinated that Epic Games are the authors. Does anyone know what their motivation for this research would be?
- woolybully 1y agoTim Sweeney & Epic are creating the language Verse whose logic functional underpinnings will make concurrency & correctness easier in Fortnite. https://youtu.be/ub-dls31Pyw https://youtu.be/ub-dls31Pyw
- troupo 1y agoThe 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
- batterseapower 1y agoReinventing the programming paradigm has been Tim Sweeney's hobby horse since before 2006: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/crg/papers/sweeney06games.pdf 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 :-)
- wormius 1y agoYeah Sweeney was really active on the programming theory site http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ It looks like it's currently down (not sure if a glitch or what).