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The tbnl web server was indeed renamed to hunchentoot. I found the old tbnl versions in the wayback machine. One of the snapshots: https://web.archive.org/web/20080131152054/http://www.weitz.... Most likely adapting to the current hunchentoot would not be difficult too.
It has been done \o/ https://github.com/tamurashingo/reddit1.0/
Here's an updated version with DB tables (PostGres) that runs: https://github.com/tamurashingo/reddit1.0/ Require: CommonLisp (tested on SBCL) PostgreSQL memcached smtp server CL-USER> (reddit:startup-reddit) # Writing a CL web app today is definitely doable. You won't find a framework with bells and whistles (yet), but all the required building blocks: web servers (Hunchentoot or Clack, like WSGI for Python), choice…
What language is HN written in ?
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Arc I believe.
OMG, Paul Graham actually released Arc in some form? I thought he never finished it. I was going to make snarky comment about how between spez and PG, Lisp must actually be extended-release brain poison for people in executive management positions; now I wonder if spez just knows PG personally and takes his advice.
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I've bee using C++ since the late 90s, and namespaces are still annoying.
Just use `using namespace std;` inside your function and C++ suddenly becomes nice.
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As someone who’s been involved in both, it’s not like the language you pick doesn’t make a difference, but I’d say that there are other factors that vastly overshadow it. For example, one thing we were told when choosing to write in a lisp was that we’d have problems finding developers. It turned out to be true in that we received fewer applications, but compared to the same process with a more mainstream language, I…
I think requiring your startup in lisp also keeps the type of engineers away you don’t want. In all of my career, it’s not those who know who have been good. It’s those who know how to learn new things fast that are good. It’s people who problem solve that make good engineers. In the inverse. If somebody has a negative reaction to lisp, it’s a sign of a poor engineer.
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Aaron Swartz replaced the Lisp with web.py
Yes, web.py was his baby. He also had some markdown parser stuff. Baby boomers always tell me about seeing The Doors live in dive bar in NYC. I can say I used Reddit when it was written in Lisp. :-)
Even years after, when I had stopped posting on those PHP powered smaller forums I resisted creating a reddit account just because it was "reddit".
I would say, the smaller forums sites were a more tightly knitted group that I attended several meetups with. Reddit just never felt the same.
Here's an updated version with DB tables (PostGres) that runs: https://github.com/tamurashingo/reddit1.0/ Require: CommonLisp (tested on SBCL) PostgreSQL memcached smtp server CL-USER> (reddit:startup-reddit) # Writing a CL web app today is definitely doable. You won't find a framework with bells and whistles (yet), but all the required building blocks: web servers (Hunchentoot or Clack, like WSGI for Python), choice…
HTMX is not anymore framework agnostic than JS. It's a JS library. You can use any backend with either.
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OMG, Paul Graham actually released Arc in some form? I thought he never finished it. I was going to make snarky comment about how between spez and PG, Lisp must actually be extended-release brain poison for people in executive management positions; now I wonder if spez just knows PG personally and takes his advice.
You're a guest on Paul's site. Don't be so needlessly rude to your host.