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- # The Poets System
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- i read an article talking about the three types of programmers (you can read it [here](https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/) and it got me thinking (as a pretty staunch poet tribalist)
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- ```
- /me puts a dollarydoo in the "talking about urbit" jar
- ```
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- were talking about urbit!
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- ## the poets system
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- urbit is the operating system for the poets, its nice, its clean, its ~~esoteric~~ elegant, and most of all, its
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- ***fizzityucking rad as shit***
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- but why so?
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- ## implementation
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- actually running your code is just an implementation detail, and thankfully for all us ~~lazy people~~ ~~bad programmers~~ *theory enthusiasts* tlon seems to think the same way.
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- how so? well the entire os is just a lisp enviroment essentially, and everything that isnt nice has been mashed into ~~a monad~~ a tree thing, with every single part of the system using that tree.
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- no more million different places to do anything, no more hundred different init systems, no more `conf_init(8)(42)(69)(1337)` and bash environment variables meta programming and storage system.
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- just nice, ~~easy to read~~ readable hoon code, throughout everything.
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- ## prog system
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- the worst part about operating systems is that you have to do things in them, luckily for us, every part of the urbit system...
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- > if i may interject for a second, what youre referring to as 'urbit' is actually 'arvo/urbit', or as ive come to call it, 'arvo+urbit'
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- yeah yeah whatever, i bet youre gonna go on about getting blockchain out of your system too because you havent ~~read the docs~~ watched all of brick and mortimer.
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- the entire system is malleable using the lisp and brainfuck lovechild, hoon.
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- its incredible, its all the powers of using emacs, with the upside of not having to run emacs.
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- ## yeah but what about my shit
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- oh no i cant live without my openlibframeworkjss of the week, i need all my ~~shit~~ shit
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- look, youre talking to someone whos having a blast with an os that is *literally* the joke about emacs being a great os that lacks a ~~decent~~ text editor.
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- no one actually appreciates an operating system as a, well, *system*, its all about word size and LDD_LINKER_PROFILE_FLAGs and whatnot.
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- its all about stuff that doesnt matter like "my system has the native ability to decrement numbers in `O(1)` time.
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- its just boring, gimme my fun, poetic system.
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- ## fin
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- in conclusion, urbit is rad, its code is ~~scary~~ awesome, and i hope it takes off, if not for the privacy, if not for the multipass, but just so that us poets have a fun os to talk about.
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- > beeteedubz theres a crypto also called urbit, its not that and we came first.
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- for more info visit [the site](https://urbit.org/primer)
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- `:wq`
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