What Urbit is
I was looking into this, as I have connections to the devs via our hackerspace.After research, I steered away, and hard.1. Newbies trying to grok the platform are mocked mercilessly. Publicly over reddit and twitter.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.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.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.