Demystifying Urbit: An OS meant to replace Windows, MacOS, Android, etc. | Real Confusion Episode #3

In this episode of "Real Confusion," I sat down with Ted Blackman, CTO of the Urbit Foundation, and Thomas Kroes, their Deputy Director. We delve into technical details, discuss the necessity of starting from scratch, and explore their unique "Kelvin versioning" method—where you count down until the software is eventually frozen. We also touch on our addiction to phones and Ted challenges the calm computing framing of Urbit.
Thank you to Ted and Thomas for joining the podcast!

[shareclipsave]

there are inherent tradeoffs of being your own bank, IT admin (operations, security, etc.) that we will never get away from. only time will tell if people are actually willing to do that for themselves.

[jordanhowlett]

I'm still watching but I wonder what Urbit thinks of WASM? It seems like WASM could be an attempt by the traditional route to solve some of the problems urbit identifiesL

[zerconiumdestinatus]

2:22:00
Consider substituting web languages with a Toki Pona based language made from scratch .