the official specification for Nock, the assembly language used by the Urbit virtual machine, fits on a t-shirt:
The Nock specification is only 200 words long
It can be compressed to 371 bytes
Nock is a low-level, homoiconic combinator language that's similar to JVM code. It's designed to be simple, and is interpreted by Vere. Hoon is the practical layer of Urbit, and it compiles itself to Nock, the simple layer.
Strange how it is leaning to one side but otherwise looks just fine. I'd have thought that anything with enough force to push it over like that would have caused other more visible damage. Pretty grainy video though.
Whatever it was, it seems more likely that it was a booster issue than anything relating to the tower given that they were initially go for the catch. It was only during the boostback burn that they scrapped it.
SRE here, it's currently happening in a few parts but overall, it's not as attractive on server side. Server Side code running is mostly a solved problem and for very few organizations, the benefits of WASM don't outweigh any difficulties in getting it running.
> Server Side code running is mostly a solved problem
I know what you mean here, but I think we're very limited in what we tend to run. Polyglot programming still isn't really a thing, and with things like WASI standardized (someday soon I hope), I could imagine it becoming a lot nicer.
