Verse programming language
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Epic Games' programming language, recommended for its async concurrency model and sleek design, though critics call it far from production with messy syntax.
Epic Games' programming language, recommended for its async concurrency model and sleek design, though critics call it far from production with messy syntax.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Sleek and works well
“TIL about Verse looks cool I'll have to check it out.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"” “It's quite sleek and it works.”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch” Sensible design and concurrency model
“it is worth looking at the doc to see why and how it makes a lot of sense”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “Rewriting Bun in Rust” “the best async/concurrency model i know is verse”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“advocates of tooling like Blueprints and now Verse for doing full games”
“It's quite sleek and it works.”
“I am really struggling to see how”
“Verse syntax looks kind of messy”
“it is worth looking at the doc to see why and how it makes a lot of sense”
“missing basic features like unions and lambdas”
“far from any kind of production state”
“the best async/concurrency model i know is verse”
“Visual intuition for debugging/observing — watch agents "think" via bubbles/movement instead of logs”
“Simon Peyton Jones (GHC/Verse)”
“TIL about Verse looks cool I'll have to check it out.”
“Epic hasn't yet demonstrated that their approach can actually scale to be used from multiple threads in a useful manner”
“has a lot of transaction features”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.