Do YC companies use Arc?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092384

by abqarc • 14 years ago

16 6 14 years ago

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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?

pg3• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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

pg3• 14 years ago

Maybe some. There are so many applications now that I couldn't say for sure.

pfedor• 14 years ago

Do you still have great ambitions for Arc? Do you think one day there will be a book "Programming Arc" from O'Reilly?

pg3• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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.

Do YC companies use Arc?

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