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It's an esoteric language artificially coupled to a finite pki designed to enrich early founders. The language part doesn't allow anything new, nor does it do
by nootropicat 6y ago
It's an esoteric language artificially coupled to a finite pki designed to enrich early founders.
The language part doesn't allow anything new, nor does it do anything better - it's most similar to a lisp machine, but written in a much, much less expressive language.
It would be harmless if not for the pki part. It lives on ethereum anyway, it has no excuse to exist. Eth addresses or ens would work as well, but without the ponzi mechanics.
- qppo 6y agoSee even this triggers my bullshitometer What does this response even mean? How can a language be coupled to PKI? Does the language implement it, or is it predicated on some implementation? How can that even "live on" ethereum in the first place? What kind of fucked up problem statement results in this jargon bingo card being applicable?
- Fang_ 6y agoNot sure what nootropicat is on about. The language itself is not coupled to the PKI. The PKI ("azimuth") is implemented as a contract on Ethereum. The OS ("arvo"), implemented in the language ("hoon"), has a networking module that respects the PKI, but also affords for (practically) infinite not-PKI-registered identities.