Shrubbery: Application Development For Urbit By Liam Fitzgerald

Shrubbery: Application Development For Urbit By Liam Fitzgerald at #LambdaConf2024.

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Liam explained the "Shrubbery" project, which was a skunkworks project from the #UrbitFoundation that aimed to redefine how user-facing applications were written on Urbit. The discussion started with a critique of Urbit's current userspace layer and then moved on to a first-principles discussion of Urbit and how that had informed the Shrubbery prototype.

The talk then detoured to discuss non-Urbit influences on the prototype before moving to a walkthrough of sample applications written under this model, followed by a live demonstration. Liam then elaborated on the new native UI engine that was being developed as part of the project.