Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective

54 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 12 comments

stavros 17 hours ago |
This has strong Urbit vibes, somehow.
cpach 16 hours ago |
Dunno. IMHO, it feels a lot more practical than Urbit.
recursive 16 hours ago |
I can basically understand what it is. So to me, it's very different.
surprisetalk 16 hours ago |
Urbit is an underrated project! It was definitely an inspiration for the language I’m working on:
[0] https://scrapscript.org
TOGoS 13 hours ago |
I probably want to talk to you about programming language ideas.
What are your thoughts on Unison[0], which also uses hash-addressed code and managed effects?
[0] https://www.unison-lang.org/
surprisetalk 11 hours ago |
Sure, feel free to email me anytime :)
[1] [email protected]
Unison seems cool! I met some Unison folks a few years back and our visions didn't have much overlap. Nice people, but their fundamental design decisions with hashes/effects/etc are incompatible with the web I'm trying to build.
compressedgas 15 hours ago |
I thought it was more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
The Urbit nock machine is very different.
kragen 14 hours ago |
Last time someone said that on here, one of the responses was, "Uxn is to Urbit as science is to scientology."
It may not be quite true (Urbit isn't completely fake) but it's sure funny.
stavros 14 hours ago |
Interesting, I've never heard of Uxn before, I'll take a closer look, thank you.
pjs_ 12 hours ago |
something tells me they might not entirely appreciate that comparison haha
stavros 11 hours ago |
I'm not very familiar with either project, but they have similar names.
sevensor 11 hours ago |
> I am not convinced that computers solve any real problems either.
This strikes me as such a strange thing to say that I think I must have misunderstood what they’re getting at.