Really? I was most interested in the role that news.ycombinator.com is going to play in their application process. I think that it's an absolutely great idea and not only helps Paul but start-up-would-be's as well.

Yes, really. That's not to say I'm uninterested in the role that news.ycombinator will play in their application process, too. Once word gets out, it will be very interesting to see what kind of traffic is posted and how the signal/noise ratio changes.

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OK, here's the question, pg, is this site actually running on a lightweight webserver written in ARC, or did you tie ARC into apache or something for the application logic and storage? Or did you use ARC as a markup language? Just curious.

The server's written in Arc too. I wanted to learn how to write one.

I thought you might have written the server, since their isn't too much fat in the HTTP headers :) You should add a Server header for bragging rights though.

Congrats to you and your team on launching the first Arc app regardless of how much of the stack is written in Arc.

Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code).

Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?

editor: vi, ide: repl

I'm having trouble using drakma to hit the site. I'm pretty new to Lisp so I'm still learning what I'm looking at, however it looks like something in the stream from the server (possibly while reading headers?) is messing up CHUNGA:READLINE which Drakma uses.

in that case, I _am_ excited about Arc's progress ;)

Do you find mzscheme plays well with pthreads, or have you another concurrency approach?

Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code).

Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?

I don't think the fact that the site is written in Arc makes the site itself any more interesting. Arc is interesting, as is the fact that it's to the point where it could be used to make this site.

'... I don't think the fact that the site is written in Arc makes the site itself any more interesting. ...'

I do. I'm pretty sure the site, layout & idea have been inspired by the defection from lisp to python ~ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

As the site progresses it proves a point. That "Reddit" could have continued in Lisp had they persisted and that "Lisp -like languages", can still cut it.

It does in a sense, because it makes it faster to add new features.