Urbit Precepts Discussion | Hacker News

Good HN thread here on how whack the fuckin urbit people are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280006

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Urbit Precepts Discussion ( urbit.org ) 73 points by dedalus 50 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 148 comments praptak 50 days ago "Specifically, we say that the sort of simplicity that matters is the sort that makes it easy to reason about stuff." This comes from a project which uses loobeans, because booleans are too mainstream. "In short, use _() to turn a loobean into a boolean, __()to go the other way." Thank you for making it easier for me to reason about stuff. chc4 50 days ago From what I gather, most of this document is aspirational I think, and more a codified "style guide" for future code and ethos of the project. The part about naming things itself is a fairly big style change from only a few years ago. I think most Urbit devs hate the C codebase just as muc...

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