"a simple site like HN is not a good showcase of any language" HN the site, looks deceptively simple. It solves a number of problems simultaneously [0] yet se

"a simple site like HN is not a good showcase of any language" HN the site, looks deceptively simple. It solves a number of problems simultaneously [0] yet seems to work at scale [1] without bugs. [2] The success of Arc, a Lisp derivative is in the everyday usage of the site and the hard problems it solves. [3] The original comment stands. [0] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [1] "1.6 million page views and 200,000 unique visitors on a given weekday" 2013 ~ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new... [2] In fact almost 10 years ago I reported a bug, pg actually responded it was a server reset. https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/406590838/ https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/406590838/ [3] Submitting high quality links, with high quality discussion while increasing users. That is a hard problem.