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I 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-te

• tayo42 11y ago
  is there a reason or benefit to do that?
  • vinceguidry 11y ago
    File 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.