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Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp

by christianbryant on 7/15/18, 3:07 PM with 44 comments

• by georgewsinger on 7/15/18, 4:35 PM

  What are the core features that differentiate Arc from other lisp dialects?

• by dreamcompiler on 7/16/18, 4:36 AM

  The curse of Common Lisp is that every good programmer who tries it wants to improve it. Which always results in a weird product with less, rather than more, appeal.

• by krapp on 7/16/18, 10:18 PM

  I'm not nearly versed enough in either lisps or Arc to comment on it as a language, but as far as the architecture of the forum is concerned, what is the rationale for functions that appear to just print CSS and javascript[0]?

  Wouldn't it be better to separate CSS and JS into separate, static files and only have the forum deal with, at best, IDs and classes in HTML?

  I'm asking because I'm tempted to actually try to fork it and make a PR for it but it seems like such a simple and obvious bit of housekeeping that I have to assume there's a reason no one else has bothered yet.

  [0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...

• by andreareina on 7/16/18, 10:20 AM

  > The intention is to be extremely permissive in accepting patches.

  Interesting to see what this will lead to.

• by gtdthrow on 7/15/18, 6:07 PM

  Am I understanding right that Arc is a Lisp-1, like Clojure?