Oh! So maybe then we can think of a spectrum from least to most groundbreak/different like
Umbrel
Kinode
Vaporware
Plunder
Urbit
Vaporware is right in the middle. Nice!
We don't use WASM, we use an entirely new computational model called PLAN and a new Lispy/Haskelly functional language called Sire. The core of our system is an SSI (solid state Interpreter), Kinode's is not. (We'll have a blog post with a frendlier definition of the SSI soon, but for now there is this whitepaper that introduced this concept to the world: https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf . Disclaimer though that we are not building on Urbit, it's just that the SSI is a general concept.)
We've got some explanation of PLAN here: https://vaporware.gitbook.io/vaporware/overview/overview#persistence-plan
Kinode's identity/networking layer requires blockhain integration. Our networking and identity are optional, freely-chosen by the user, and compatible with standard, blockchain-less cryptographic keypairs very much like Nostr. In fact, you'll be able to use your Nostr keys as identy in our system!
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Yea! I like that.
I think you'd want "Solid State Interpreter" at the bottom, rather than "Urbit" as technically urbit is *A* solid state interpreter. But your framing is good regardless
I’m in. Let me know how to be an early adopter haha
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As of this moment we don't yet have any more user-facing toys to play with (we had a few limited demos a couple months back. New ones are in the works).
If you're a developer and want to check out the system as it stands today I could point you to the docs.
If you want to just hang out and talk about whatever and find out about things as they develop, you could join our telegram: https://t.me/vaporwareNetwork
I'll always post relevant stuff on Nostr, too, if you prefer that!