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 "leader" is an avowed racist and nasty person in general. Now, ad hominems aren't "good"... but if I work on it, I get lumped into the similar group. Just no.<p>3. It uses "Hoon" to program, which is in reality a Lisp variant. They wanted something completely foreign so "only dedicated people would learn it". Seriously. Use Lisp.<p>4. It's another company interests driving the project. Projects like these have the potential of changing everything on the internet. Locking it behind a company "firewall" means if they die, the project does as well.