Urbit - Hackdot

Re:Urbit by iudqnolq on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:19PM (#21673178)

> In Urbit OS 1, a community shares a set of modules. (Think of a module like an app without the data lock-in.) One community may choose to chat and share a forum. Another may choose to chat and watch the crypto markets. And yet another may chat, share links, ebooks, and a to-do list. Anyone can develop a module, and anyone can create a community.

Sounds awesome, in theory. Website had nothing I could find describing what has been built, instead of what theoretically could be built by other people on their platform.

To paraphrase Steve Yegge's platform rant, Facebook had an awesome platform, but that wasn't worth shit without the killer app they had from day: one Facebook the website.

If I signed up for Urbit today, would I get the "ability to create" applications or would I get applications? This is supposed to replace my computer. Can it run Firefox? Microsoft Word?

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Re:Urbit by belisarius222 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:29AM (#21674189)

Today, Urbit has chat, blogging, a basic weather app, and a lot of programming facilities. Eventually it should be able to run a document editor, and you can do things similar to internet browsing even on today's Urbit.

Urbit is a long-term project starting from the foundations and working up the stack. It'll be stable soon, but it probably won't be ready to run something as heavy as a modern web browser for a while. That being said, it does work, and it's fun to play with as-is.

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Re:Urbit by iudqnolq on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:11AM (#21674295)

Thanks for the in-depth response.

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Re:Urbit by iudqnolq on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:28PM (#21673657)

Edit: To paraphrase from Steve Yegge's platform rant. It's got a lot more than that.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

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