Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2010/02/reddit-clone-in-10-minutes-and-91-lines-of-clojure/

by icey • 16 years ago

75 26 16 years ago

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jrockway2• 16 years ago

Exactly. A Reddit frontpage for 1 user and 10 articles should be about 90 lines of code.

icey2• 16 years ago

I don't understand what you mean by "Exactly."

(I'm not trying to be snarky, I just seriously feel like I've missed the point)

jpeterson• 16 years ago

I think the point is that replicating pretty much any site is trivially easy in any language if you don't have to worry about query performance, cacheing, scaling, etc.

jrockway2• 16 years ago

What I meant to say is that it's a simple problem, and should be about 90 lines of code.

lbj• 16 years ago

Actually this will serve as many users as your system can handle.

abstractbill• 16 years ago

Different sense of the word "user".

hypermatt• 16 years ago

News.Arc ? Isn't all of hacker news written in a lisp variant thats only a few hundred lines long?

brianobush• 16 years ago

and also suffers from scalability too. How many times have you accessed this site and got a connection error? Scalability and all that other work requires code.

lurkinggrue• 16 years ago

That seems to be missing a few features, like accounts.

derefr• 16 years ago

I think Reddit clones would be a lot more commonplace and popular if they had a name other than "Reddit clones"; it's a simple site architecture in retrospect, analogous to a blog or a wiki. They are all categories of web applications that have interactive elements, but also act as websites for those who don't care to participate.

Now, imagine if blogs had been called "Wordpress clones", or wikis had been known as "Wikipedia clones"? [Yes, I know, not the originators of the species, but surely the ones the most people are familiar with.] I don't think they'd have nearly the traction on the web that they do now, as the media wouldn't be caught dead talking about the "Wordpress clone usage and participation phenomenon" without being payed off. If there was a non-trademarked, one-to-two syllable name one could use to describe both Reddit and HN, I think we'd see the usage shoot up.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

Social bookmarking site?

sjs• 16 years ago

maybe social web surfing? delicious is social bookmarking.

i guess it depends how one uses reddit though.

jokermatt999• 16 years ago

I think that's a little too broad of a category. That conveys the sharing of links, but not the voting and comments, which I feel are the defining features of reddit.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

Bestinclass.dk is always hyping clojure and actually does more damage than good. Remember the 'clojure vs python', 'clojure vs ruby' and 'clojure vs global warming' articles.

If you name your blog 'best in class' I think that sets that bar for the quality a bit higher than what is generally on display there.

samd• 16 years ago

Proof that you can't build a great product with clever programming alone.

onewland• 16 years ago

I wonder when this article format will bump against ridiculous limits.

"RabbitMQ clone in 4 lines of Go in 13 seconds".

rickmode• 16 years ago

Right on. And I can write a word processor in one mouse click. (OK maybe a double-click.)

malkia• 16 years ago

And he saves the data where? And he filters the bad words where? And he....

philjackson• 16 years ago

Ignore the 'Reddit clone' part and enjoy the code.

koningrobot• 16 years ago

Looks like it contains an XSS bug in the way it reports errors.

Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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