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That says nothing about Urbit's technical merit.

• atdrummond 7y ago
  Not to mention he left the project last year.
• lilactown 7y ago
  Urbits supposed value proposition isn't technical, so I think it's completely valid to analyze its founders political and social philosophy to try and understand its vision and decisions. The urbit website does very little to explain, on a technical level, how any of it works. It goes to great lengths to explain the supposed impact of its design decisions and how it will make all of our lives better (supposedly). Another post recently popped up about Urbit last week and I did (against my better judgement) a bit of a dive to try and understand all the lingo. It's a real WTF. The "Hoon" language is completely esoteric, the website a mess, the docs written in this very philosopher-intellectual like way that is completely incomprehensible. I see that the website has gotten a lift recently and they are clearly trying to make an effort to be more approachable, but its cultural roots are in a lot of problematic stuff and it still does not convince me that it's anything more than crypto-LARPing. Urbit might be technically interesting, I can't tell, but that's not what this blog post is about. It's not what Urbit is trying to sell to me. And based on the thought leadership, I am not interested in buying.
• Pils 7y ago
  > That says nothing about Urbit's technical merit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
  • baxrob 7y ago
    http://xanadu.net http://xanadu.net https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/