What Urbit is
I was looking into this, as I have connections to the devs via our hackerspace.<p>After research, I steered away, and hard.<p>1. Newbies trying to grok the platform are mocked mercilessly. Publicly over reddit and twitter.<p>2. The &quot;leader&quot; is an avowed racist and nasty person in general. Now, ad hominems aren&#x27;t &quot;good&quot;... but if I work on it, I get lumped into the similar group. Just no.<p>3. It uses &quot;Hoon&quot; to program, which is in reality a Lisp variant. They wanted something completely foreign so &quot;only dedicated people would learn it&quot;. Seriously. Use Lisp.<p>4. It&#x27;s another company interests driving the project. Projects like these have the potential of changing everything on the internet. Locking it behind a company &quot;firewall&quot; means if they die, the project does as well.