I thought this stuff was so silly too until I read Yarvins resignation letter. It goes someways to explain the esoteric nature of the tooling. He sets out qui

I thought this stuff was so silly too until I read Yarvins resignation letter. It goes someways to explain the esoteric nature of the tooling. He sets out quite eloquently the reasons for it; 1. Laziness (which I think is a modest way of saying it wasn’t a priority to make the names good while they still tinker on it). 2. It’s not ready for prime time - urbit is becoming popular before it’s anywhere near ready for consumers. The esotericism helps keep people away who would be burned by an unpolished first experience. 3. Some of the things are conceptually new and given placeholder names that will be changed later when their purpose is better understood. I actually think while building this stuff the reasons given make a lot of sense, especially the part about laziness - the idea of urbit contains some new concepts and it’s probably not a good idea to wed names to tools before they have been given time to be fleshed out. https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/ https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/