Arc Programming Language Reviews and Details

Is Arc Programming Language good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp

  The (anonymous? I can't find a name) author of the OP slipped slightly at the end of their otherwise-impeccable sequence of quotes. When I wrote that last comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546438) to Clarc. It includes a sample application which is an early version of HN, scrubbed of anything HN- or YC-specific. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Lobsters

  Here you can find the latest public code: http://arclanguage.org/ But I don't think there has been any public updates since that release. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Twenty-five open-source network emulators and simulators you can use in 2023

  Well, kind of, at least considering the last public version of Arc, that HN uses (found here: http://arclanguage.org/) It seems to be storing stuff directly on disk, on the same host that the software itself runs on. So you're right if you consider the filesystem a sort of database, but otherwise no :). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?

  >Where is the HN source code right now? Free and Open? Yes and no. HN itself is running a proprietary fork of Arc Lisp, which you can find here[0]. The Arc maintainters don't take public PRs or feature requests, and HN itself has numerous changes to the codebase which aren't public for business reasons. There is a public fork of Arc called Anarki[1] which has no direct connection to HN or Arc Lisp, and for which... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0

  Dammit, I thought this was about Arc language (the language/platform that HN uses, http://arclanguage.org/). Guess I'm stuck with using Anarki still. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Dang, could the login page get a title?

  The original version was open sourced (Perl artistic License) http://arclanguage.org/ There is an active fork in https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki but it's totally independent and the current conde in HN can be (very) different. My guess is that it's very difficult to keep all the details of the secret sauce hidden. They change the details very often. For... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• ClickHouse Common Lisp Client Library

  TIL that HN is written in Arc - http://arclanguage.org/ - a Racket-based Lisp dialect. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language). - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Can DSLs in Racket be its own language?

  Arc, a lisp language designed by Paul Graham. Source: over 3 years ago

• A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

  >The source code for the software that runs Hacker News was available at one time. Still is: http://arclanguage.org >Are the undocumented features, voting ring detectors, and spam detectors not in the released source code? Some are, but things like voting ring detection and spam detection aren't. YCombinator doesn't often share the code of changes they make to HN, unfortunately. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Writers Out There?

  It's already out there: http://arclanguage.org/ [and I do think it's a bit mean of HN not to give credit anywhere on this site!]. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Hacker News Official API

  No they don’t. This forum was created as a MVP of a webapp using PG’s Arc Lisp. All user and comment data are stored as tables serialized to text files or in memory. You can find an old version of the code at http://arclanguage.org. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Our Roadmap for Nix

  > People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on. Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme: http://arclanguage.org/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• HN Moved from M5 to AWS

  You don't have to speculate - the Arc forum code is available at http://arclanguage.org. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

  > Maybe they are intentionally using boring tech This might be true on the infrastructure layer, but HN definitly uses "fancy" technology as Paul developed his own lisp that powers HN, Arc :) http://arclanguage.org/ > Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Hacker News Moderates with Only One Person and Their Biases

  Http://arclanguage.org/ Does anyone have experience with this? Dang told me this is what is used to moderate the site by himself. I wonder how one person moderates this site all alone and what tools he is using to make these decisions. Is anyone else curious about what terms or things Dang allows and also doesn't allow? - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler

  Arc Lisp[0]. This forum is literally a MVP for the language. [0] http://arclanguage.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Ask HN: What’s the server architecture of Hacker News?

  Someone 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, and there is a public fork, Anarki at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki which is not in feature parity with the former, which itself is not in feature parity with Hacker News. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago