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Tangent: An (early?!) version of HN source code is available on GitHub [1]. It comes with a custom LISP dialect, ARC, that is itself running under MzScheme. T
by heinrichhartman 5y ago
Tangent:
An (early?!) version of HN source code is available on GitHub [1]. It comes with a custom LISP dialect, ARC, that is itself running under MzScheme.
This architecture looks pretty arcane. Has anyone an idea what lead Paul, et. al. to write a custom LISP dialect for building a web forum? Is that a common thing for schemer's to do to get things done? Or does the ARC language predate the HN implementation? I am not sure.
[1] https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoAlso, does it reveal the particulars of the offensive "you're posting too fast" bullshit, where users are allowed to type out an entire question or comment and THEN told that they're not allowed to post it?
- ziftface 5y agoI think I saw in one of his blogs that he used arc elsewhere. I imagine "arc.arc" and "html.arc" were relevant to other projects as well, so I doubt they were developed just for this.
- krapp 5y agoSomeone can correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK Hacker News was meant to be a MVP for the Arc language itself. Also a more up to date version of the Arc forum can be found at https://arclanguage.org https://arclanguage.org, and there is a public fork, Anarki at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki which is not in feature parity with the former, which itself is not in feature parity with Hacker News.