Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?

#1

Post by pranavk » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:17 PM UTC

Just curious because it seems that it is written using rails.

Re: Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?

#2

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

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#3

Post by checker659 » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

Why does it seem so?

#4

Post by FajitaNachos » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

It's not. I'm sure someone will hop in with the specifics. I think it's written in arc.

#5

Post by pranavk » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

checker659 wrote: post #3

Why does it seem so?

well that was just my intuition. may be because its easy to make such a thing with rails (may be i am getting biased here.)

#6

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:25 PM UTC

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#7

Post by Peroni » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:25 PM UTC

FajitaNachos wrote: post #4

It's not. I'm sure someone will hop in with the specifics. I think it's written in arc.

Correct. Considering PG created it, it makes sense.

#8

Post by pranavk » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

hmm. ya just got the source code here : https://github.com/wting/hackernews

#9

Post by rizky05 » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

arc was invented for hn

#10

Post by pranavk » Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

rizky05 wrote: post #9

arc was invented for hn

:/ was invented for HN ? HN could have easily been built using rails or django.