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When you get the design right, there's no need to change it. :) Jokes aside, I refuse to let Arc die. There were genuinely good ideas embedded in it, amidst th
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
When you get the design right, there's no need to change it. :)
Jokes aside, I refuse to let Arc die. There were genuinely good ideas embedded in it, amidst the rough edges. People just never forced themselves to use it. It's like if Vim was invented but had no documentation, so no one ever realized it's powerful if you embrace it.
But yeah, I imagine my version will have a different name and a shiny website. Being a decade out of date does matter, especially for hiring purposes.
- tptacek 9y agoI think I'm just saying that I'm not sure you can conclude they don't have a real database backend now from the news.arc code.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoAh, yeah. (It's odd that Arc went closed-source but kept improving. It's maybe one of the most important custom languages in the industry, relative to HN's impact on the world.)
- krapp 9y agoDid Arc go closed-source or does Hacker News run a closed-source fork? As far as I can tell, the arc forums site is still up and running, and a lot of people seem to be focused on Anarki[0]. [0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- tptacek 9y agoHacker News has been on a closed-source "fork" (it's really the upstream) since the day news.arc was published.