[habitue]

> the deepest problem with Urbit: it’s light on actual substance. Urbit seems to have spent many years developing fundamental infrastructure – programming languages, tools, etc. – that are a gigantic maintenance burden and orthogonal to its actual mission. That’s a huge distraction, and as a consequence, the “stuff you can do with your Urbit server” section was unimpressive.

This is really the crux. There's nothing on the urbit website but obfuscation of this fact. It's a vanity project reinventing everything from scratch, and the "use cases" are post hoc. If they actually cared about those use cases, they'd do things differently.

Urbit is TempleOS, but written by a neoreactionary instead of a schizophrenic. It's a weird hobby project not a serious attempt to accomplish anything, and it shows up on HN way more than the actual substance merits.