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Urbit

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-23 14:20

This guy made a distributed operating system: https://github.com/urbit/urbit

Or at least, I think that's what's going on here, because he's all full of mysticism and goes on and on about traditions and instincts. Meanwhile I can't understand half a word of his sparsely documented source code. The language he made up seems to borrow all the worst parts of Befunge and APL, and even his C is kind of obfuscated. It's like trying to read a newspaper in Hmoob.

Am I just too intellectual to understand reality? Is my brain poisoned by the academic ivory tower's harmful theoretical concepts, /prog/? How can I ever unlearn the toxic ability to think?

Name: Anonymous 2014-06-23 18:01

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Stanislav (Loper OS) is trying to recreate Lisp machines starting with his own dataflow processor design. He totally rejects the utility of anything built on top of the current standard von Neumann architecture.

Curtis Yarvin (Urbit) believes he can create his vision for a new computing platform as an abstraction on top of the existing hardware, and as part of that, he's writing a lot of code in C to "emulate" the new platform on current machines.

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