"The ability to do speculative execution within failure contexts, meaning you can try out actions without committing them. When an expression succeeds, the effects of the expression are committed, but if the expression fails, the effects of the expression are rolled back as though the expression never happened. This way, you can execute a series of actions that accumulate changes, but those actions will be undone if a failure occurs in the failure context.

Failure is control flow. Instead of using true / false values to change the flow of your program (such as with decision points), Verse uses failable expressions, which produce a value if they succeed or don’t if they fail. Failable expressions can only be executed in failure contexts, such as if expressions.

Multi-paradigm to use the best of functional programming, object-oriented programming, and imperative programming, such as being as deterministic as possible. One example of this is that data is immutable by default, and given the same code and data, results will always be exactly the same."