Project Verona

Project Verona is an experimental research programming language developed by Microsoft and aimed at dealing with memory situations to make other programming languages safer.[3][2]

Project Verona
ParadigmSafe infrastructure programming
FamilyRust-like
Designed byMicrosoft Research,
Imperial College London
First appeared2019 (2019)
PlatformCross-platform
OSLinux, Windows, Darwin
LicenseMIT License
Filename extensions.verona[1]
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-verona (GitHub)
Influenced by
Rust, Cyclone, Pony[2]

The project is being supported by C# project manager Mads Torgensen[4] and Microsoft Research Cambridge research software engineer Juliana Franco.[5] Project Verona is also being aided by academics at Imperial College London.[2] Unlike in Rust where the ownership model based on a single object, it is based on groups of objects in Verona.[5]

According to Microsoft, the goal of the project is to create a safer platform for memory management.[3]

Project Verona is open source released under MIT License and is under active development on GitHub.[6]

Example

 
while_sum(x: List[U32]) : U32
{
  var sum: U32 = 0;
  let iter = x.values();

  while { iter.has_value() }
  {
    // This has to be `a`, same as in the for loop above
    let a = iter();

    // Increments the iterator
    next iter;

    // This is the body of the for loop
    sum = sum + a
  }

  sum
}

See also

References
  1. "Project Verona". Microsoft Research.
  2. Tung, Liam. "Microsoft opens up Rust-inspired Project Verona programming language on GitHub". ZDNet.
  3. Jones, Luke (January 17, 2020). "Microsoft's Rust-Based Project Verona Reaches Open Source on GitHub". WinBuzzer.
  4. Tung, Liam. "Microsoft: Here's why we love programming language Rust and kicked off Project Verona". ZDNet.
  5. Tung, Liam. "Microsoft: We're creating a new Rust-like programming language for secure coding". ZDNet.
  6. "GitHub - microsoft/verona: Research programming language for concurrent ownership". GitHub.
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