I like coding.

I particularly like Lisp. I also like Haskell a lot.

I like what the Internet could be.

Unfortunately, now, the Internet is dominated by companies that require accounts, demand license to your data, throttle and guide interaction, and can and do deny service based on suspicious and opaque rules.

Urbit is very different.

To use Urbit, one needs an identity (they come in planets, comets, stars, galaxies, and, for temporary use comets).

Each planet identity is an address on the Urbit network. Planets must be purchased. They cost roughly $20. Critically, purchases of planets are documented on a block chain (at present, Ethereum’s). This makes your planet your property. It cannot be cancelled, although it can be ignored, if you are unpleasant.

The Urbit operating system is Arvo. It is written in Hoon, a functional, typed language. Hoon has at its heart Nock, which is similar to eval in Lisps.

Hey, Try it Out!

Learning Hoon is enjoyable and rewarding, and can be used to make real applications that run on your planet, and across the Hooniverse, such as via the Web interface Landscape.

Exploring Urbit and the Hooniverse is like blueshifting your conventional take. You will learn of gates, wings, arms, legs, faces, tapes, cords and runes. You will learn to pronounce $ as buc, and |= as bartis and ^- as kethep and @p as pat P. For good reasons.

  • You will meet great people.

  • It’s never to soon to start learning Hoon.

See you up on Mars.

~habnus-dovres

A snippet of Hoon:

++  strip-leading-spaces 
|=  str=tape
^-  tape
|- 
?~  str 
  str 
?:  =(' ' i.str) 
  $(str t.str) 
`tape`str

Maybe of interest:

Urbit Overview https://youtu.be/M04AKTCDavc

Hooniversity: https://hooniversity.org/

Hoon School: https://hooniversity.org/enroll/

Urbit / Hoon Docs: https://urbit.org/docs/reference/

Buy a planet:

Catch a comet: https://urbit.org/docs/glossary/comet/

Tlon: https://tlon.io/

Once you get on Urbit, join:

~bitbet-bolbel/urbit-community

~hiddev-dannut/new-hooniverse