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Precepts: Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering (urbit.org)
2 points by jackfoxy on Oct 1, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hoon, the higher level functional language of Urbit, is homoiconic and very Lisp-like. Written using runes, which define relationships of daughter branches in a binary tree and using limited semantic white space it does not suffer from the forest of parentheses which happen in Lisps.




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