3 ms·
Re: niche languages—Hacker News is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc: - https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews - https:
by binarynate 5y ago
Re: niche languages—Hacker News is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc:
- https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
- oaiey 5y agoThat explains the stable feature set :)
- lloydatkinson 5y agoSuch as being unable to do pagination when there’s too many comments.
- capableweb 5y agoIf you do want to get into it, checkout first the arc forums (the UI might be familiar to you: http://arclanguage.org/forum http://arclanguage.org/forum) and then after that check out Anarki which is a community-maintained fork of Arc, seems more up-to-date and has some QoL upgrades, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Coincidentally, seems my post have been the top #1 post on the Arc forums since I first made it, ~17 days ago. That forum could do with a bit more of traffic :)
- turndown 5y agoIt's funny - I actually found Hacker News just because I had tried out another website, named Hubski, that was written in Arc.