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30 – Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse

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The Economics of the Metaverse

At a lower level, you need a language library which could run in C++ or Python or Java or C sharp. So it's not just a bunch of low-level bit manipulation operations, but a real rigorous library where if you follow the library according to the spec and everything works safely. I think the highest level layer in this platform could then be a scripting language for interacting with the metaverse. If we added something like that, whether it looks like Python or JavaScript or Lua or C sharp, those are all possibilities. But I think that's the correct layering because in this software framework, we have to acknowledge that the big heavy metal software here is going to be written in C

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