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by aspectmin 1923 days ago
Would love to see the HN architecture.
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arclanguage.org hosts the current version of Arc Lisp, including an old version of the forum, but HN has made a lot of changes locally that they won't disclose for business reasons.

There's an open source fork at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki, but it doesn't have any direct relationship with HN.

Single threaded LISP application running on a single machine. Ta-da.
The application is multi-threaded. But it runs over a green-thread language runtime, which maps everything to one OS thread.

That's a significant distinction because if you swap the underlying implementation then the same application should magically become multithreaded, which is exactly the plan.