Yes it was over complicated, at its core Urbit had a good idea though; it is too complex for people to run their own servers because securing Linux is hard, and it is not safe to install applications ...
Honestly, chances of a new OS to chatch on are pretty slim. I think something like a soft-layer/psudo os using the infrastructure we already have, might close to reality.
I too am into wasm, but the wasm ecosystem it's still young and not yet well standardized.
There is pointnetwork, same as urbit, they went to rewrite the internet :) and they keep adding things.
Changing such core things like the os is pretty hard, my feeling is by adding an os (pseudo) on top of any current os might be simpler and feasible.
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What I find a bit funny is that all these promises and all the sovereignity and everything, we still put the code on github.
I too am into wasm, but the wasm ecosystem it's still young and not yet well standardized.
There is pointnetwork, same as urbit, they went to rewrite the internet :) and they keep adding things.
Changing such core things like the os is pretty hard, my feeling is by adding an os (pseudo) on top of any current os might be simpler and feasible.
---- sidenote ----
What I find a bit funny is that all these promises and all the sovereignity and everything, we still put the code on github.
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