Urbit
  • Introduction
  • Development

    • Getting Started
    • Environment Setup
    • Grants Program
    • Project Repositories
    • Precepts
    • System Overview

      • Arvo
      • Hoon
      • Nock
      • Vere
      • Azimuth
      • Cryptography
      • Arvo

        • Overview
        • Reference

          • Cryptography
          • Filesystem Hierarchy
          • Ames

            • Overview
            • Cryptography
            • API Reference
            • Behn

              • Overview
              • API Reference
              • Clay

                • Overview
                • Architecture
                • Using Clay
                • Data Types
                • Scry Reference
                • API Reference
                • Examples
                • Dill

                  • Overview
                  • API Reference
                  • Eyre

                    • Overview
                    • External API Reference
                    • Internal API Reference
                    • Scry Reference
                    • Data Types
                    • Examples
                    • Ford

                      • Overview
                      • Gall

                        • Overview
                        • Iris

                          • API Reference
                          • Jael

                            • API Reference
                            • Concepts

                              • Subscriptions
                              • Tutorials

                                • Move Trace
                              • Userspace

                                • Overview
                                • Gall

                                  • Overview
                                  • Tutorial
                                  • API Reference
                                  • Graph Store

                                    • Graph Store Overview
                                    • Data Structure Overview
                                    • Validator Walkthrough
                                    • Advanced Info
                                    • Threads

                                      • Overview
                                      • HTTP API
                                      • Reference
                                      • Basics

                                        • Fundamentals
                                        • Bind
                                        • Input
                                        • Output
                                        • Summary
                                        • Gall

                                          • Start Thread
                                          • Take Result
                                          • Take Facts
                                          • Stop Thread
                                          • Poke Thread
                                          • Examples

                                            • Fetch JSON
                                            • Child Thread
                                            • Main-loop
                                            • Poke Agent
                                            • Scry
                                            • Take Fact
                                          • Landscape

                                            • Overview
                                            • API Reference

                                              • Graph Store
                                          • Hoon

                                            • Overview
                                            • Hoon School

                                              • 1.1 Setup
                                              • 1.1.1 Walkthrough: List of Numbers
                                              • 1.2 Nouns
                                              • 1.3 Hoon Syntax
                                              • 1.3.1 Walkthrough: Conditionals
                                              • 1.4 Gates (Hoon Functions)
                                              • 1.4.1 Walkthrough: Recursion
                                              • 1.5 Lists
                                              • 1.5.1 Walkthrough: Fibonacci Sequence
                                              • 1.6 The Subject and Its Legs
                                              • 1.6.1 Walkthrough: Ackermann Function
                                              • 1.7 Arms and Cores
                                              • 1.7.1 Walkthrough: Caesar Cipher
                                              • 1.8 Doors
                                              • 1.8.1 Bank Account
                                              • 1.9 Generators
                                              • 2.1 Atoms, Auras, and Simple Cell Types
                                              • 2.2 Type Checking and Type Inference
                                              • 2.3 Structures and Complex Types
                                              • 2.3.1 Walkthrough: Libraries
                                              • 2.3.2 Molds
                                              • 2.4 Standard Library: Trees, Sets, and Maps
                                              • 2.5 Type Polymorphism
                                              • 2.5.1 Walkthrough: Iron Polymorphism and Wet Polymorphism
                                              • 2.5.2 Walkthrough: Lead Polymorphism
                                              • 2.6 Behn
                                              • 2.7 Gall
                                              • 2.7.1 Gall Walkthrough: Egg Timer
                                              • Guides

                                                • CLI apps
                                                • Parsing
                                                • Writing Aqua Tests
                                                • Reference

                                                  • Cheat Sheet
                                                  • Irregular forms
                                                  • Hoon Errors
                                                  • Hoon Style Guide
                                                  • Basic Types
                                                  • Advanced Types
                                                  • Auras
                                                  • Runes

                                                    • Atoms and strings
                                                    • Nock . ('dot')
                                                    • Wild ! ('zap')
                                                    • Change Subject = ('tis')
                                                    • Conditionals ? ('wut')
                                                    • Cores | ('bar')
                                                    • Arms + ('lus')
                                                    • Cells : ('col')
                                                    • Calls % ('cen')
                                                    • Casts ^ ('ket')
                                                    • Structures $ ('buc')
                                                    • Make ; ('mic')
                                                    • Hints ~ ('sig')
                                                    • Terminators -- and ==
                                                    • Limbs and wings

                                                      • Limbs
                                                      • Wings
                                                      • Standard library

                                                        • Table of Contents
                                                        • 1a: Basic Arithmetic
                                                        • 1b: Tree Addressing
                                                        • 1c: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                        • 2a: Unit Logic
                                                        • 2b: List Logic
                                                        • 2c: Bit Arithmetic
                                                        • 2d: Bit Logic
                                                        • 2e: Insecure Hashing
                                                        • 2f: Noun Ordering
                                                        • 2g: Unsigned Powers
                                                        • 2h: Set Logic
                                                        • 2i: Map Logic
                                                        • 2j: Jar and Jug Logic
                                                        • 2k: Queue Logic
                                                        • 2l: Container from Container
                                                        • 2m: Container from Noun
                                                        • 2n: Functional Hacks
                                                        • 2o: Normalizing Containers
                                                        • 2p: Serialization
                                                        • 2q: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                        • 3a: Modular and Signed Ints
                                                        • 3b: Floating Point
                                                        • 3c: Urbit Time
                                                        • 3d: SHA Hash Family
                                                        • 3e: AES encryption (Removed)
                                                        • 3f: Scrambling
                                                        • 3g: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                        • 4a: Exotic Bases
                                                        • 4b: Text Processing
                                                        • 4c: Tank Printer
                                                        • 4d: Parsing (Tracing)
                                                        • 4e: Parsing (Combinators)
                                                        • 4f: Parsing (Rule-Builders)
                                                        • 4g: Parsing (Outside Caller)
                                                        • 4h: Parsing (ASCII Glyphs)
                                                        • 4i: Parsing (Useful Idioms)
                                                        • 4j: Parsing (Bases and Base Digits)
                                                        • 4k: Atom Printing
                                                        • 4l: Atom Parsing
                                                        • 4m: Formatting Functions
                                                        • 4n: Virtualization
                                                        • 4o: Molds
                                                        • 5a: Compiler Utilities
                                                        • 5b: Macro Expansion
                                                        • 5c: Compiler Backend & Prettyprinter
                                                        • 5d: Parser
                                                        • 5e: Caching Compiler
                                                        • 5f: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                        • 5g: profiling support
                                                    • Nock

                                                      • Nock Definition
                                                      • Explanation
                                                      • Example
                                                      • Implementations
                                                      • Vere

                                                        • C Runtime System
                                                        • Land of Nouns
                                                        • API overview by prefix
                                                        • C in Urbit
                                                        • Writing Jets
                                                        • Cryptography
                                                        • Azimuth

                                                          • Overview
                                                          • Life and Rift
                                                          • Advanced Azimuth Tools
                                                          • Glossary

                                                            • Ames
                                                            • Aqua
                                                            • Arm
                                                            • Arvo
                                                            • Atom
                                                            • Azimuth
                                                            • Battery
                                                            • Behn
                                                            • Breach
                                                            • Bridge
                                                            • Censures
                                                            • Ceremony
                                                            • chat
                                                            • Claims
                                                            • Clay
                                                            • Comet
                                                            • Core
                                                            • Delegated Sending
                                                            • Desk
                                                            • Dill
                                                            • Document Proposal
                                                            • Dojo
                                                            • Door
                                                            • Ecliptic
                                                            • Event Log
                                                            • Eyre
                                                            • Ford
                                                            • Galaxy
                                                            • Gall
                                                            • Gate
                                                            • HD Wallet
                                                            • Hoon
                                                            • Invite Tree
                                                            • Iris
                                                            • Jael
                                                            • Jaque
                                                            • Keyfile
                                                            • Landscape
                                                            • Mark
                                                            • Moon
                                                            • Nock
                                                            • Noun
                                                            • OTA Updates
                                                            • Payload
                                                            • pH
                                                            • Pier
                                                            • Pill
                                                            • Planet
                                                            • Proxies
                                                            • Replay
                                                            • Sail/Udon
                                                            • Senate
                                                            • Ship
                                                            • ship.arvo.network
                                                            • Star
                                                            • |sync
                                                            • Trap
                                                            • Upgrade Proposal
                                                            • Vane
                                                            • Vere
                                                            • Voting
                                                            • Wallet-Generator
                                                            Urbit
                                                            • Introduction
                                                            • Development

                                                              • Getting Started
                                                              • Environment Setup
                                                              • Grants Program
                                                              • Project Repositories
                                                              • Precepts
                                                              • System Overview

                                                                • Arvo
                                                                • Hoon
                                                                • Nock
                                                                • Vere
                                                                • Azimuth
                                                                • Cryptography
                                                                • Arvo

                                                                  • Overview
                                                                  • Reference

                                                                    • Cryptography
                                                                    • Filesystem Hierarchy
                                                                    • Ames

                                                                      • Overview
                                                                      • Cryptography
                                                                      • API Reference
                                                                      • Behn

                                                                        • Overview
                                                                        • API Reference
                                                                        • Clay

                                                                          • Overview
                                                                          • Architecture
                                                                          • Using Clay
                                                                          • Data Types
                                                                          • Scry Reference
                                                                          • API Reference
                                                                          • Examples
                                                                          • Dill

                                                                            • Overview
                                                                            • API Reference
                                                                            • Eyre

                                                                              • Overview
                                                                              • External API Reference
                                                                              • Internal API Reference
                                                                              • Scry Reference
                                                                              • Data Types
                                                                              • Examples
                                                                              • Ford

                                                                                • Overview
                                                                                • Gall

                                                                                  • Overview
                                                                                  • Iris

                                                                                    • API Reference
                                                                                    • Jael

                                                                                      • API Reference
                                                                                      • Concepts

                                                                                        • Subscriptions
                                                                                        • Tutorials

                                                                                          • Move Trace
                                                                                        • Userspace

                                                                                          • Overview
                                                                                          • Gall

                                                                                            • Overview
                                                                                            • Tutorial
                                                                                            • API Reference
                                                                                            • Graph Store

                                                                                              • Graph Store Overview
                                                                                              • Data Structure Overview
                                                                                              • Validator Walkthrough
                                                                                              • Advanced Info
                                                                                              • Threads

                                                                                                • Overview
                                                                                                • HTTP API
                                                                                                • Reference
                                                                                                • Basics

                                                                                                  • Fundamentals
                                                                                                  • Bind
                                                                                                  • Input
                                                                                                  • Output
                                                                                                  • Summary
                                                                                                  • Gall

                                                                                                    • Start Thread
                                                                                                    • Take Result
                                                                                                    • Take Facts
                                                                                                    • Stop Thread
                                                                                                    • Poke Thread
                                                                                                    • Examples

                                                                                                      • Fetch JSON
                                                                                                      • Child Thread
                                                                                                      • Main-loop
                                                                                                      • Poke Agent
                                                                                                      • Scry
                                                                                                      • Take Fact
                                                                                                    • Landscape

                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                      • API Reference

                                                                                                        • Graph Store
                                                                                                    • Hoon

                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                      • Hoon School

                                                                                                        • 1.1 Setup
                                                                                                        • 1.1.1 Walkthrough: List of Numbers
                                                                                                        • 1.2 Nouns
                                                                                                        • 1.3 Hoon Syntax
                                                                                                        • 1.3.1 Walkthrough: Conditionals
                                                                                                        • 1.4 Gates (Hoon Functions)
                                                                                                        • 1.4.1 Walkthrough: Recursion
                                                                                                        • 1.5 Lists
                                                                                                        • 1.5.1 Walkthrough: Fibonacci Sequence
                                                                                                        • 1.6 The Subject and Its Legs
                                                                                                        • 1.6.1 Walkthrough: Ackermann Function
                                                                                                        • 1.7 Arms and Cores
                                                                                                        • 1.7.1 Walkthrough: Caesar Cipher
                                                                                                        • 1.8 Doors
                                                                                                        • 1.8.1 Bank Account
                                                                                                        • 1.9 Generators
                                                                                                        • 2.1 Atoms, Auras, and Simple Cell Types
                                                                                                        • 2.2 Type Checking and Type Inference
                                                                                                        • 2.3 Structures and Complex Types
                                                                                                        • 2.3.1 Walkthrough: Libraries
                                                                                                        • 2.3.2 Molds
                                                                                                        • 2.4 Standard Library: Trees, Sets, and Maps
                                                                                                        • 2.5 Type Polymorphism
                                                                                                        • 2.5.1 Walkthrough: Iron Polymorphism and Wet Polymorphism
                                                                                                        • 2.5.2 Walkthrough: Lead Polymorphism
                                                                                                        • 2.6 Behn
                                                                                                        • 2.7 Gall
                                                                                                        • 2.7.1 Gall Walkthrough: Egg Timer
                                                                                                        • Guides

                                                                                                          • CLI apps
                                                                                                          • Parsing
                                                                                                          • Writing Aqua Tests
                                                                                                          • Reference

                                                                                                            • Cheat Sheet
                                                                                                            • Irregular forms
                                                                                                            • Hoon Errors
                                                                                                            • Hoon Style Guide
                                                                                                            • Basic Types
                                                                                                            • Advanced Types
                                                                                                            • Auras
                                                                                                            • Runes

                                                                                                              • Atoms and strings
                                                                                                              • Nock . ('dot')
                                                                                                              • Wild ! ('zap')
                                                                                                              • Change Subject = ('tis')
                                                                                                              • Conditionals ? ('wut')
                                                                                                              • Cores | ('bar')
                                                                                                              • Arms + ('lus')
                                                                                                              • Cells : ('col')
                                                                                                              • Calls % ('cen')
                                                                                                              • Casts ^ ('ket')
                                                                                                              • Structures $ ('buc')
                                                                                                              • Make ; ('mic')
                                                                                                              • Hints ~ ('sig')
                                                                                                              • Terminators -- and ==
                                                                                                              • Limbs and wings

                                                                                                                • Limbs
                                                                                                                • Wings
                                                                                                                • Standard library

                                                                                                                  • Table of Contents
                                                                                                                  • 1a: Basic Arithmetic
                                                                                                                  • 1b: Tree Addressing
                                                                                                                  • 1c: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                                                                                  • 2a: Unit Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2b: List Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2c: Bit Arithmetic
                                                                                                                  • 2d: Bit Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2e: Insecure Hashing
                                                                                                                  • 2f: Noun Ordering
                                                                                                                  • 2g: Unsigned Powers
                                                                                                                  • 2h: Set Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2i: Map Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2j: Jar and Jug Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2k: Queue Logic
                                                                                                                  • 2l: Container from Container
                                                                                                                  • 2m: Container from Noun
                                                                                                                  • 2n: Functional Hacks
                                                                                                                  • 2o: Normalizing Containers
                                                                                                                  • 2p: Serialization
                                                                                                                  • 2q: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                                                                                  • 3a: Modular and Signed Ints
                                                                                                                  • 3b: Floating Point
                                                                                                                  • 3c: Urbit Time
                                                                                                                  • 3d: SHA Hash Family
                                                                                                                  • 3e: AES encryption (Removed)
                                                                                                                  • 3f: Scrambling
                                                                                                                  • 3g: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                                                                                  • 4a: Exotic Bases
                                                                                                                  • 4b: Text Processing
                                                                                                                  • 4c: Tank Printer
                                                                                                                  • 4d: Parsing (Tracing)
                                                                                                                  • 4e: Parsing (Combinators)
                                                                                                                  • 4f: Parsing (Rule-Builders)
                                                                                                                  • 4g: Parsing (Outside Caller)
                                                                                                                  • 4h: Parsing (ASCII Glyphs)
                                                                                                                  • 4i: Parsing (Useful Idioms)
                                                                                                                  • 4j: Parsing (Bases and Base Digits)
                                                                                                                  • 4k: Atom Printing
                                                                                                                  • 4l: Atom Parsing
                                                                                                                  • 4m: Formatting Functions
                                                                                                                  • 4n: Virtualization
                                                                                                                  • 4o: Molds
                                                                                                                  • 5a: Compiler Utilities
                                                                                                                  • 5b: Macro Expansion
                                                                                                                  • 5c: Compiler Backend & Prettyprinter
                                                                                                                  • 5d: Parser
                                                                                                                  • 5e: Caching Compiler
                                                                                                                  • 5f: Molds and Mold-Builders
                                                                                                                  • 5g: profiling support
                                                                                                              • Nock

                                                                                                                • Nock Definition
                                                                                                                • Explanation
                                                                                                                • Example
                                                                                                                • Implementations
                                                                                                                • Vere

                                                                                                                  • C Runtime System
                                                                                                                  • Land of Nouns
                                                                                                                  • API overview by prefix
                                                                                                                  • C in Urbit
                                                                                                                  • Writing Jets
                                                                                                                  • Cryptography
                                                                                                                  • Azimuth

                                                                                                                    • Overview
                                                                                                                    • Life and Rift
                                                                                                                    • Advanced Azimuth Tools
                                                                                                                    • Glossary

                                                                                                                      • Ames
                                                                                                                      • Aqua
                                                                                                                      • Arm
                                                                                                                      • Arvo
                                                                                                                      • Atom
                                                                                                                      • Azimuth
                                                                                                                      • Battery
                                                                                                                      • Behn
                                                                                                                      • Breach
                                                                                                                      • Bridge
                                                                                                                      • Censures
                                                                                                                      • Ceremony
                                                                                                                      • chat
                                                                                                                      • Claims
                                                                                                                      • Clay
                                                                                                                      • Comet
                                                                                                                      • Core
                                                                                                                      • Delegated Sending
                                                                                                                      • Desk
                                                                                                                      • Dill
                                                                                                                      • Document Proposal
                                                                                                                      • Dojo
                                                                                                                      • Door
                                                                                                                      • Ecliptic
                                                                                                                      • Event Log
                                                                                                                      • Eyre
                                                                                                                      • Ford
                                                                                                                      • Galaxy
                                                                                                                      • Gall
                                                                                                                      • Gate
                                                                                                                      • HD Wallet
                                                                                                                      • Hoon
                                                                                                                      • Invite Tree
                                                                                                                      • Iris
                                                                                                                      • Jael
                                                                                                                      • Jaque
                                                                                                                      • Keyfile
                                                                                                                      • Landscape
                                                                                                                      • Mark
                                                                                                                      • Moon
                                                                                                                      • Nock
                                                                                                                      • Noun
                                                                                                                      • OTA Updates
                                                                                                                      • Payload
                                                                                                                      • pH
                                                                                                                      • Pier
                                                                                                                      • Pill
                                                                                                                      • Planet
                                                                                                                      • Proxies
                                                                                                                      • Replay
                                                                                                                      • Sail/Udon
                                                                                                                      • Senate
                                                                                                                      • Ship
                                                                                                                      • ship.arvo.network
                                                                                                                      • Star
                                                                                                                      • |sync
                                                                                                                      • Trap
                                                                                                                      • Upgrade Proposal
                                                                                                                      • Vane
                                                                                                                      • Vere
                                                                                                                      • Voting
                                                                                                                      • Wallet-Generator
                                                                                                                      Urbit/Documentation/Hoon

                                                                                                                      Reference

                                                                                                                      This is where you look for answers to specific technical questions.

                                                                                                                      Syntax Cheat Sheet

                                                                                                                      A quick reference guide to Hoon's syntax.

                                                                                                                      Irregular Forms

                                                                                                                      Irregular syntax.

                                                                                                                      Troubleshooting

                                                                                                                      Strategies for debugging and understanding what your Hoon code is doing.

                                                                                                                      Style Guide

                                                                                                                      Best practices for writing Hoon code.

                                                                                                                      Basic Types

                                                                                                                      A simplified explanation of Hoon's type system.

                                                                                                                      Advanced Types

                                                                                                                      The full story on Hoon's type system.

                                                                                                                      Auras

                                                                                                                      A list of aura types for atoms.

                                                                                                                      Runes

                                                                                                                      Syntax and semantics for Hoon's rune system.

                                                                                                                      Limbs and Wings

                                                                                                                      How to find data inside Hoon subjects.

                                                                                                                      Standard Library

                                                                                                                      Reference material for the Hoon standard library.