Verse: A New Scripting Language
I'm usually a huge pl nerd, and sure, verse has some interesting ideas, but I just do not understand the rationale and it makes it hard to be excited about it. the website does not hesitate to talk about how it's "Metaverse First" but also how it's "Simple enough for first-time…
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I'm usually a huge pl nerd, and sure, verse has some interesting ideas, but I just do not understand the rationale and it makes it hard to be excited about it. the website does not hesitate to talk about how it's "Metaverse First" but also how it's "Simple enough for first-time programmers to learn", yet if you scroll down just a bit it'll start throwing keywords like computes, reads, transacts, final, persistable, decides and suspends at you immediately. final at least seems to mean the same thing here as in Java, but no "Java for noobs" guide would consider final an important enough keyword to justify bringing it up immediately. the compiler is still closed source. the website is just a "book" that will bore you to death rambling about syntax.
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