What Tim Sweeney thinks about JavaScript

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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1. 30 Apr 2025

   Our readingThe metaverse is a harder technical problem than a web page, so it needs a language more powerful, safer and more scalable than JavaScript.

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   Their wordsBut the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.

   ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 14th of 22 in this recording