Urbit has no shortage of true believers who will insist that, in practice, Hoon -- and Urbit&#x27;s alarmingly weird verbiage in general -- is very easy and pleasant to use and not at all strange, despite it being as penetrable to hackers outside the project as, say, the rantings of a Sea Org member. In fact I think a major portion of the purpose of the project is to produce a vanguard of true believers who buy into the whole vision thing, and then go spread try-it-you&#x27;ll-like-it propaganda on sites like this to recruit yet more true believers, etc.<p>As evidence I submit that a gentleman put up a significant bounty to implement a simple game in Urbit[0]. There were no takers.<p>When you consider chunks of Urbit&#x27;s completely reinvented network space are for sale for real cash money, it gives you a glimpse as to the rest of the project&#x27;s purpose.<p>Urbit is the brainchild of a blogger who is prone to lead his readers on lengthy circumlocutions only to tie them up into conclusions about political systems -- if indeed they be conclusions at all -- which are not only old ideas but some of them really bad ideas which humans have tried before and proven to be really bad. While the <i>ideas</i> underpinning Urbit may not align with Moldbug&#x27;s politics -- Urbit&#x27;s design and rationale follows his <i>methodology</i>. The funny weird names not only for symbols but for common OS concepts like files, network endpoints, and closures, are a part of an elaborate cup-and-ball game intended to convince the unwary of the intelligence of Urbit&#x27;s creators and the innovativeness of the system itself, despite evidence that it basically consists of idiosyncratic implementations of well-known computer science concepts, with possibly ulterior motives.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trilema.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;so-this-urbit-thing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trilema.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;so-this-urbit-thing&#x2F;</a>