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New things are developed every day with old words. There are existing words for just about everything Urbit does.
by Rusky 11y ago
New things are developed every day with old words. There are existing words for just about everything Urbit does.
- jpt4 11y agoIndeed, even a Post Res mathematical structuralist will admit the instrumental utility of common words for similar entities; would you care to list a few, and their mappings between the jargon of Earth and Mars?
- fiatjaf 11y agoYou didn't get it. Not radically new things. There are existing words, but using them wouldn't allow the people from Urbit to think about combining concepts in the radically different way they are doing. In fact, they would end up saying: well, all we are trying to do already exists, so let's just write a library here, another there. You can argue this would be better, but their goal is to do a completely different thing, even if it looks it could be done with a new library for something.
- Rusky 11y agoNo... I got what you meant. But there are plenty of new languages and even reinvent-the-world projects that reuse existing terminology just fine. There's nothing about using existing words that makes it harder to "develop new things"- in fact, it makes it easier.