Ben Lynn on "MacGyver's Haskell Compiler" @ZuriHac2023

This video series discusses the development of a new programming language called Verse, which is designed to be scalable, easily learnable, and extensible. It is being developed by Epic Games and is meant to be used for creating immersive 3D virtual reality environments. It has standard values, expressions, bindings, functions, conditionals, and a type system, as well as a unique feature of allowing an expression to return zero, one, or multiple values. It is also discussed how the language can be used for functional programming, logic programming, hardware acceleration, parallelism, distributed computing, machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, blockchain, cryptography, security, privacy, ethics, sustainability, fairness, scalability, reliability, robustness, maintainability, usability, accessibility, internationalization, localization, testing, and debugging. The speaker also explains how to give a precise semantics to the language, and the rules of flexible and rigid variables, proving a set of rules called confluence, and the type system. He encourages people to play with the artifacts they create.