There's a long-running strain of arguments that Urbit isn't intentionally obfuscated; people involved in the project have been apologizing for its official descriptions since its inception. Ron Garrett isn't a "mob with a bone to pick" and he's been doing yeoman's work for years on HN debunking Urbit and pushing back on those apologies. To my eyes, he's got by far the better argument:
An especially admirable thing about the way Garrett has approached this mess is that he's managed, as far as I can tell, to reliably avoid taking the bait on the drama about the project's founder; he's just a Smug Lisp Weenie, in the best possible sense of the term, critiquing a language and computing platform.
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An especially admirable thing about the way Garrett has approached this mess is that he's managed, as far as I can tell, to reliably avoid taking the bait on the drama about the project's founder; he's just a Smug Lisp Weenie, in the best possible sense of the term, critiquing a language and computing platform.