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Can someone explain what is going on? Is this a new OS built from the ground up with it's own technologies ?

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• rm445 12y ago
  At present it's a bunch of programs that run on UNIX systems. I guess the Hoon interpreter is a C program that uses readline, talks to the network over sockets and the like. But everything on top is quite self-contained and in principle one might remove the layers underneath. But I'm not sure that's necessarily the aim. As I understand the project's aims (and I'm not involved, I just read all the docs a few months back), it's more important that the Internet of the future is not a tangled mess of technologies that are insecure on different layers. Then it doesn't matter so what OS people's local machines are running. I hope the essay at the URL below is still relevant, it seems to describe the aims rather well. "The result: Martian code, as we know it today. Not enormous and horrible - tiny and diamond-perfect." http://moronlab.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html http://moronlab.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/urbit-functional-prog...
  • comboy 12y ago
    > http://moronlab.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html http://moronlab.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/urbit-functional-prog... My brain did not enjoy any wall of text that much since I read the bitcoin whitepaper. Now I want to learn more and be up to date.
  • jacquesm 12y ago
    > I guess the Hoon interpreter is a C program that uses readline "or even readline - this is not readline, it's internal to Arvo"