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Whatever happened to that Lisp clone?

mineshaftgap 12y ago
It must be around here somewhere.
valarauca1 12y ago
<joke> Likely consumed by meta-patterns, like every other project who's primary reason to exist is to be a LISP clone of something.
bhhaskin 12y ago
I wounder...
swartkrans 12y ago
I'm not sure if linuxydave is joking, but for those not in on the joke, Hacker News is written in arc, a Lisp variant. Hacker News resembles early versions of reddit quite a bit and Reddit was a ycombinator funded startup. Early on there was a big overlap in the two communities, although Hacker News was quite a bit more exclusive and limited in scope.
- 27182818284 12y ago
  I knew HN was written in Arc, but I wasn't aware that it is the Lisp clone referred to by this piece. Was it?
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  - nocman 12y ago
    When he said "Whatever happened to that Lisp clone?" I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp. The discussion was not about writing a new Lisp or Lisp-like language, but a clone of Reddit. The fact that HN is a site that performs a function very similar to Reddit, and happens to be written in a dialect of Lisp is completely coincidental :-D (unless there has been some comment by pg about his motivations for making HN that I missed, but I kind of doubt it).
    - linuxydave 12y ago
      >I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp. Yep, spot-on. It's the same with those guys who wanted to make a Facebook clone focused on privacy or whatever. Lots of talk and then you never hear about the project again.
      - ryanfreeborn 12y ago
        You mean Diaspora? (or maybe there's another clone I missed out on). The founder of Diaspora committed suicide. I think the project mostly died with him.
        dbdr 12y ago
        Wow, I didn't know about this suicide :( Is the project really dead though? I have no personal experience, but these stats show a growing number of active users: http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/ http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/
        ryanfreeborn 12y ago
        Oh interesting. I didn't know it was still moving along. It had a lot of momentum a few years back, but hasn't been making nearly as much noise since. Not sure if the founder's suicide actually correlated with the dropoff in media attention.
        linuxydave 12y ago
        Didn't know about Diaspora or the suicide. Sorry to hear that it happened :(
    - rmc 12y ago
      The fact that HN is a site that performs a function very similar to Reddit, and happens to be written in a dialect of Lisp is completely coincidental :-D (unless there has been some comment by pg about his motivations for making HN that I missed, but I kind of doubt it). I believe pg stated that HN was supposed to be what reddit was originally.

It must be around here somewhere.

<joke> Likely consumed by meta-patterns, like every other project who's primary reason to exist is to be a LISP clone of something.

bhhaskin 12y ago

I wounder...

swartkrans 12y ago

I'm not sure if linuxydave is joking, but for those not in on the joke, Hacker News is written in arc, a Lisp variant. Hacker News resembles early versions of reddit quite a bit and Reddit was a ycombinator funded startup. Early on there was a big overlap in the two communities, although Hacker News was quite a bit more exclusive and limited in scope.

27182818284 12y ago
I knew HN was written in Arc, but I wasn't aware that it is the Lisp clone referred to by this piece. Was it?
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- nocman 12y ago
  When he said "Whatever happened to that Lisp clone?" I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp. The discussion was not about writing a new Lisp or Lisp-like language, but a clone of Reddit. The fact that HN is a site that performs a function very similar to Reddit, and happens to be written in a dialect of Lisp is completely coincidental :-D (unless there has been some comment by pg about his motivations for making HN that I missed, but I kind of doubt it).
  - linuxydave 12y ago
    >I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp. Yep, spot-on. It's the same with those guys who wanted to make a Facebook clone focused on privacy or whatever. Lots of talk and then you never hear about the project again.
    - ryanfreeborn 12y ago
      You mean Diaspora? (or maybe there's another clone I missed out on). The founder of Diaspora committed suicide. I think the project mostly died with him.
      - dbdr 12y ago
        Wow, I didn't know about this suicide :( Is the project really dead though? I have no personal experience, but these stats show a growing number of active users: http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/ http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/
        ryanfreeborn 12y ago
        Oh interesting. I didn't know it was still moving along. It had a lot of momentum a few years back, but hasn't been making nearly as much noise since. Not sure if the founder's suicide actually correlated with the dropoff in media attention.
      - linuxydave 12y ago
        Didn't know about Diaspora or the suicide. Sorry to hear that it happened :(
  - rmc 12y ago
    The fact that HN is a site that performs a function very similar to Reddit, and happens to be written in a dialect of Lisp is completely coincidental :-D (unless there has been some comment by pg about his motivations for making HN that I missed, but I kind of doubt it). I believe pg stated that HN was supposed to be what reddit was originally.