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Re:Plunder and Urbit by lazzlazzlazz on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:38AM (#37064320)
Assuming you are correct in your translation (it's difficult to know), there are no benefits to the language they've chosen. The only reasons to use it are to:

(1) maintain the tradition (mistakenly) established by Urbit

(2) create an artful and amusing atmosphere for the ingroup

(3) filter and keep curious normies out

None of these are reasons I can get behind.

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Re:Plunder and Urbit by mhuesch on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:14PM (#37066515)
Plunder does not use much of Urbit's terminology, outside of the linked gist, which was intended for Urbit devs, and which was cross-posted here by someone from Twitter.

I've been following along w/ Plunder for the past 10ish months out of personal interest, and I find the terminology to be about as straightforward as one can expect for a technical domain which is quite complicated.

perhaps this document is more straightforward? feedback is welcome.

https://git.sr.ht/~plan/plunder/tree/master/item/doc/PLAN.md

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Re:Plunder and Urbit by yebyen on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:36PM (#37067424)
> maintain the tradition (mistakenly) established by Urbit

No, your traditions are a mistake. (How do you like it?)

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