What is Verse for and where is its place in the ecosystem?

[Orfin74]

@TVinforest

So for proper use of the engine my collaborators would not need to know blueprints? A person asks me “teach me Unreal” and I say sure - Verse. I was asked to teach programming using UE5 to kids and I thought I’ll start with UEFN and Verse because we will grow with it - so I shouldn’t teach them Blueprints. Is it the way to go - or eventually they will still really need blueprints to use Unreal? Blueprint are great for teaching programming but if Verse is the future of Unreal why even teach them to anyone especially kids interested in UE?

I am also interested in the question, is it worth studying blueprints and C++, when a verse appears in UE6, is it possible to completely abandon blueprints and C++?