Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective

(wiki.xxiivv.com)

45 points | by surprisetalk 5 days ago ago

11 comments

  • stavros 6 hours ago

    This has strong Urbit vibes, somehow.

    • kragen 3 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 3 hours ago

        Interesting, I've never heard of Uxn before, I'll take a closer look, thank you.

    • compressedgas 4 hours ago

      I thought it was more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

      The Urbit nock machine is very different.

    • recursive 5 hours ago

      I can basically understand what it is. So to me, it's very different.

    • cpach 5 hours ago

      Dunno. IMHO, it feels a lot more practical than Urbit.

    • pjs_ an hour ago

      something tells me they might not entirely appreciate that comparison haha

      • stavros 12 minutes ago

        I'm not very familiar with either project, but they have similar names.

    • surprisetalk 5 hours ago

      Urbit is an underrated project! It was definitely an inspiration for the language I’m working on:

      [0] https://scrapscript.org

      • TOGoS an hour 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 15 minutes ago

          Sure, feel free to email me anytime :)

          [1] hello@taylor.town

          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.