Hi again.
So, i decided to look into urbit, and it was a unique experience.
If you dont know what urbit is, urbit is more like an operating system. Built on top of an operating system.
Created by tlon, now under the urbit foundation, it has a large community.
The operating system is based on knock, a functional tree-like byte language. Most networking, commands and all or most the apps in urbit is compiled to knock. Because knock is functional by design, it has no state. Meaning that you can copy urbit directory (aka your pier) and put it on a different operating system, and continue where you left off, without any issues.
Hoon, is the assembly language of knock. Hoon is not like a normal assembly program with registers. It is based on knock, therefore it goes against the most intuitive knowledge in favor of pure functional programming.
Hoon code is very difficult to read in the beginning, because it does not use words. However with some practice (and going though hoon school) your mind will snap into place. From there, it is pretty easy to build simple scripts. If you understand functional programming, and lambda calculus (with learning lean4 for theorem proving), then it is really easy to snap yourself really easily.
Urbit, due to its stateless design and its pseudo-anonymity, allows you to create a sovereign digital identity, without any outside control. That which is now paramount, as age verification and privacy breaking rules are becoming rampant.
You can self host your instance, however you will most likely have to buy a name of via ethereum. So it wouldn’t be recommended.
Instead, Tlon can host it for you. Tlon will give you a name, and an identity. There you can enter Urbit and see what’s to offer..
You can find me as ~nidsym-bilpur