HN Explorer

Do YC companies use Arc?

16 points by abqarc ↗ HN
Can someone answer how many YC companies use Arc when they are building their first prototypes?

Can someone also answer how many YC companies use Arc in their product?

6 comments

[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] thread
pg
None have that I know of. Several have used Clojure.

Frankly, I would not recommend a startup use it. Although we continue to tweak our version, we haven't bothered to release a new version for a long time. And I doubt there is much in the way of libraries or integration with other stuff.

eddie_the_head
I noticed awhile back that user rougefeta used Arc or something strongly resembling it for their webapp they were applying to YC with, have any others also used Arc-based webapps to apply to YC?

rougefeta seems to have taken the site down though.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rougefeta

pg
Maybe some. There are so many applications now that I couldn't say for sure.
pfedor
Do you still have great ambitions for Arc? Do you think one day there will be a book "Programming Arc" from O'Reilly?
pg
Arc is in much the same state as essays. YC has grown so big that I don't have much time to work on either, except as related to YC (i.e. essays about startups, and Arc tweaks to support HN). But one way or another I will work on both again.
abqarc
One can get libraries for cheap.

Calling Python from Arc with wrappers that return Python data structures as s-exps seems like a workable hack to get libraries in Arc, at least the ones written in a functional style.

Most libraries needed for web apps might be in Javascript.