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Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023

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What it is

A Lambda Days keynote by Simon Peyton Jones and Tim Sweeney introducing Verse, Epic's functional logic language for the metaverse. It covers existential variables, unification and expressions yielding multiple values.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an interesting look at functional logic programming with wide implications for game programming.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I recommend the Lambda days talk on the Verse programming language [1].”

    Practical take on code, data, and types

    Arelius, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking”

  2. “the Verse project from Unreal is extremely interesting imo, and has much wider scope/implications.”

    Verse has wide scope for game programming

    silok, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Relive: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake – GodotCon 2023”

  3. “Or something more recent, about Epic”

    Recent talk on Epic's Verse

    ReleaseCandidat, 2024-06 · Recommendation · in “Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]”

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Topics: verse, epic games, haskell, unification, language design

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