PLAN is an evaluation model for a purely-functional database.

Actually, this "purely-functional database" phrase is a bit misleading, it's an attempt to describe a novel programming paradigm for which we don't yet have good vocabulary.

this novel programming paradigm is just urbit’s badly plagiarized Nix store combined with Nix’s lazy evaluation semantics and large parts of Nix’s syntax (with pointless extra bits stuck on, as is tradition). not one citation in the whole thing, of course

and these fucking doofuses still use Nix to build their shit! they’re gonna claim with a straight face this bullshit is so novel they can barely describe it?

Tired of dealing with shitcoins from the crypto currency world? Too bad, because we're making shit-urbits now.

At least "Plunder" is an honest name.

@self Why don't they just double-down on evil and market it as the OS for supervillains? There's a perfectly good bacronym for it already—SPECTRE, the Software Executive for Cryptocurrency, Intrusion, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. (Maintainer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld. And he doesn't use git, he uses sccs—collaborators get the shark tank.)

Urbit is a ball of mud

Can’t say I disagree.

I am really very pleased to see that the hackernewses are starting to react to Urbit the way they've already been reacting to crypto

I think Urbit exists not because it's actually meant to work or do anything, but because Yarvin wanted the aesthetic of being a hacker founder tech guy. Proximity to tech folks was his bread and butter, right? Otherwise he'd need to get a real job and couldn't spend all his time generating bullshit.

Tuple<"Do you expect these chucklefucks to ever release a full stable 1.0 let alone 2.0?", "Perhaps one day Urbitals will release a text I'm simultaneously drunk enough and not too drunk to read.">

BTW the latter string in English evaluates to false.

Omfg I have a coworker who writes stuff like this it's actually uncanny

There have actually been multiple attempts at doing actual computer science from a starting point of Urbit.

Here's one I wrote up in 2017, whose proponents were so outraged at the Ethereum plan that they forked, and wrote their fork's constitution in Lojban.

I didn't find the thread you are talking about, but I found this instead, which is probably much worse.

(Edit: I did eventually find the thread!)