[HN Gopher] Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective
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       Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2024-11-01 17:28 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | stavros wrote:
       | This has strong Urbit vibes, somehow.
        
         | cpach wrote:
         | Dunno. IMHO, it feels a lot more practical than Urbit.
        
         | recursive wrote:
         | I can basically understand what it is. So to me, it's very
         | different.
        
         | surprisetalk wrote:
         | Urbit is an underrated project! It was definitely an
         | inspiration for the language I'm working on:
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         | [0] https://scrapscript.org
        
           | TOGoS wrote:
           | I probably want to talk to you about programming language
           | ideas.
           | 
           | What are your thoughts on Unison[0], which also uses hash-
           | addressed code and managed effects?
           | 
           | [0] https://www.unison-lang.org/
        
             | surprisetalk wrote:
             | Sure, feel free to email me anytime :)
             | 
             | [1] hello@taylor.town
             | 
             | Unison seems cool! I met some Unison folks a few years back
             | and our visions didn't have much overlap. Nice people, but
             | their fundamental design decisions with hashes/effects/etc
             | are incompatible with the web I'm trying to build.
        
         | compressedgas wrote:
         | I thought it was more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
         | 
         | The Urbit nock machine is very different.
        
         | kragen wrote:
         | Last time someone said that on here, one of the responses was,
         | "Uxn is to Urbit as science is to scientology."
         | 
         | It may not be quite true (Urbit isn't completely fake) but it's
         | sure funny.
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | Interesting, I've never heard of Uxn before, I'll take a
           | closer look, thank you.
        
         | pjs_ wrote:
         | something tells me they might not entirely appreciate that
         | comparison haha
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | I'm not very familiar with either project, but they have
           | similar names.
        
       | sevensor wrote:
       | > I am not convinced that computers solve any real problems
       | either.
       | 
       | This strikes me as such a strange thing to say that I think I
       | must have misunderstood what they're getting at.
        
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