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i only know about racket because Carmack was doing Oculus stuff with it once 10 years ago: https://youtu.be/ydyztGZnbNs?t=412 https://youtu.be/ydyztGZnbNs?t=41

• gabrielsroka 10mo ago
  HN is written in Arc, and Arc is (was?) written in Racket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
  • superdisk 10mo ago
    It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
  • vindarel 10mo ago
    Arc was re-written to Common Lisp (SBCL) around last year, for performance reasons. > [Clarc] is much faster and also will easily let HN run on multiple cores. It’s been in the works for years, mainly because I rarely find time to work on it, but it’s all pretty close to done. > there’s now an Arc-to-JS called Lilt, and an Arc-to-Common Lisp called Clarc. […] > open-sourcing the Arc implementation (i.e. Clarc) would be much easier [than the HN site]. [Because…] more and sources of Dang quotes: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-...