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This site is written in Lisp, I believe (a dialect called Arc). Not only that, but the site and Y Combinator as a whole likely wouldn't exist without Lisp. ht
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
This site is written in Lisp, I believe (a dialect called Arc).
Not only that, but the site and Y Combinator as a whole likely wouldn't exist without Lisp.
https://paulgraham.com/avg.html https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
(Wow! Over 20 years ago!)
- iainmerrick 3y agoHas anything else notable been done with Arc? Rather than "Lisp gives you superpowers", maybe the story is actually "there were some very effective developers who happened to use Lisp to build their stuff".
- camgunz 3y agoYeah but I'm skeptical that there's anything about HN's software that's uniquely enabled by being written in Arc. I want someone to point to a feature in a Lisp and say, "you can write X software only in Z because there's Y feature". I'll even accept "significantly more easily" instead of "only" here. For example: "you can write secure kernels only in Rust because it has direct hardware access and memory safety" (let's stipulate this is all true).