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Simon Peyton Jones of Haskell fame is going to <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573|work at Epic Games>

&gt; will be working with my long-time colleague Lennart Augustsson and a team of others, on _Verse_. Verse is a new programming language that Epic is designing for their games, and in due course for the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse|metaverse>
You can listen the CEO of Epic Games Tim Sweeney taling about the metaverse in 2019: <https://soundcloud.com/siggraph-spotlight/30-tim-sweeney-and-the-metaverse|Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse>

Future arguments about functional programming can be played out in a VR battlefield

RIP (again) <http://quelsolaar.com/verse/index.html|Eskil Steenberg's Verse>.

Tim Sweeny :thumbsup::skin-tone-3:
Simon Peyton Jones :thumbsdown::skin-tone-3:
Epic bought the wrong dude.

OK, confession, I bumped into Simon @ UCL in the '80s, and he must have made an impression on me cos I always remembered him and kept noticing his career after that. So, yes, I'm probably jealous :smile: