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so Urbit seems to be an incompetent plagiarism of Nix: https://awful.systems/comment/279#person-listing https://awful.systems/comment/279#person-listing https:
by davidgerard 3y ago
so Urbit seems to be an incompetent plagiarism of Nix:
https://awful.systems/comment/279#person-listing https://awful.systems/comment/279#person-listing
https://awful.systems/comment/287#person-listing https://awful.systems/comment/287#person-listing
note how Yarvin claimed he was working on Urbit since 2002, but didn't drop any code until 2010.
EDIT: the Lemmy links above are hard to read. Here's a clearer cut'n'paste of the text and the claims: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/724590682207141888/so-it-turns-out-urbit-is-a-bad-crib-from-nix https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/724590682207141888/so-it...
- Nursie 3y ago> working on Urbit since 2002, but didn't drop any code until 2010. And here we are in 2023 and wikipedia says that as of last year the main thing it can do is ... a bare bones text-based message board. 20 years well spent!
- davidgerard 3y agoin fairness, I recently rewrote the Wikipedia Urbit article myself, to fix the sourcing :-)
- Nursie 3y agoHa! Hilarious. Now do bitcoin ;) TBH after looking into plunder a little more, this whole area starts to feel a bit like "Nano" and their excursion into trinary computation. What are you trying to do? Deliver a rapid P2P application development environment with built in auth. How are you going about it? By redefining computation from the ground up, discarding standard memory models, reorganizing the whole internet into a hierarchical... Yeah, let me stop you there. Maybe do one thing at a time and demonstrate how great it is before moving on with this magnum opus.