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

• hackernews

  13 605 0.0 Arc

  Hacker News web site source code mirror.

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?

[1] https://github.com/wting/hackernews

• anarki

  22 1,160 4.6 Arc

  Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp; for commit privileges submit a pull request.

  

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.

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