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I used to be a heavy Flickr user and I remember clicking around one day and thinking, "I can visualize the sql calls being made to generate these pages". That d
by jedrek 11y ago
I used to be a heavy Flickr user and I remember clicking around one day and thinking, "I can visualize the sql calls being made to generate these pages". That didn't feel too great.
- meesterdude 11y agoNo idea what you're talking about. I can visualize the SQL calls being made to render this HN comment thread. So what?
- ericlavigne 11y agoI don't think this website uses SQL at all. :-) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Hacker-News-technology-stack https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Hacker-News-technology-sta...
- tayo42 11y agois there a reason or benefit to do that?
- vinceguidry 11y agoFile system storage is much easier to reason about if you can't lean on a library, you can simply use the underlying OS. HN was built with a homegrown Lisp called Arc, and so can't rely on a vast community to provide a proper ORM. Community support is why I write my personal projects with Ruby and not something like Arc. I don't want to have to reinvent everything just to get something basic done.
- Too 11y agoThat means the site is very predictable, what's not great about that?