Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web • Hacker News Board

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by FinnKuhn » Thu, May 04, 2023, 7:25 AM UTC

thiht wrote: post #77

anhner wrote: post #9

NOTHING mentioned on this page can't be done natively or with extensions in other browsers. What is so revolutionary about it? And I won't even mention the landing page for the browser itself which is just 2 page scrolls of "Arc is a browser and more..." with signup links for the wainting list, no description of what it is, what it does, nothing.

I hate this trend of landing pages that don’t show anything because they’re ~ so mysterious ~ Anyway, as someone who doesn’t use Arc (yet) but had the chance to assist a quickie (15 minutes presentation in a conference) and had a coworker show it to me, I have to say I’m excited to give it a try when I get the chance. It really seems to solve cleanly some pain points I’ve had for years: - vertical / horizontal split…

if you want to try it, here is an invite code: https://arc.net/gift/18d8d85b

I personally didn't like that everything is in the side bar, especially because it makes it difficult to see an entire URL. I also missed the ability to group tabs like in Microsoft Edge, but the "Spaces" would probably be able to replace that.

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by FinnKuhn » Thu, May 04, 2023, 7:28 AM UTC

KlayLay wrote: post #82

hokumguru wrote: post #34

A really interesting factoid about Arc that I'm not sure many know about: their upcoming Windows app is written in Swift and SwiftUI. They've contributed significantly to the language to get it building on Windows and are re-implementing Win native backends for some of Apple's core libraries. All of this will be open source when they're done (or so they claim).

Source for this? SwiftUI depends heavily on Apple/macOS-only APIs, both in use and design.

this tweet[1] from one of their engineers claims that the Windows version is completely written in SwiftUI using WinUI[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/steven_brix/status/1588552544963690497 [2] https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

Re: Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

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Post by thiht » Thu, May 04, 2023, 12:39 PM UTC

FinnKuhn wrote: post #91

thiht wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate this trend of landing pages that don’t show anything because they’re ~ so mysterious ~ Anyway, as someone who doesn’t use Arc (yet) but had the chance to assist a quickie (15 minutes presentation in a conference) and had a coworker show it to me, I have to say I’m excited to give it a try when I get the chance. It really seems to solve cleanly some pain points I’ve had for years: - vertical / horizontal split…

if you want to try it, here is an invite code: https://arc.net/gift/18d8d85b I personally didn't like that everything is in the side bar, especially because it makes it difficult to see an entire URL. I also missed the ability to group tabs like in Microsoft Edge, but the "Spaces" would probably be able to replace that.

Thanks!