Project Verona

Project Verona is an experimental research programming language developed by Microsoft.³²

The project is being supported by C# project manager Mads Torgensen⁴ 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 is 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

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
}