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2 points by akkartik 2170 days ago | link | parent

That's really cool, thanks for making the case for Lumen. I now have it on my todo list to determine how much the standard library of Lumen matches the names Arc uses.

On a slight tangent, ycombinator.lol is not affiliated with Y Combinator, and https://github.com/lumen-language is not affiliated with Scott Bell the creator of Lumen. I clarify this because it took me a while to figure out. Am I characterizing it right, Shawn?



2 points by shawn 2170 days ago | link

Correct! https://github.com/lumen-language is to lumen as to https://github.com/arclanguage is to arc.

ycombinator.lol is just because fixed-point combinators are funny:

  (define Y (λ(b)((λ(f)(b(λ(x)((f f) x))))
                  (λ(f)(b(λ(x)((f f) x)))))))
It's amusing that it's even possible, and it looks visually like what happens when you accidentally `cat` a binary file to your terminal.

EDIT: I typo'd the link; The magic trick is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17963471.

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2 points by akkartik 2170 days ago | link

> https://github.com/lumen-language is to lumen as to https://github.com/arclanguage is to arc.

Touche :) It would be a little clearer if the contributors for the organization were public.

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2 points by i4cu 2168 days ago | link

> I now have it on my todo list to determine how much the standard library of Lumen matches the names Arc uses.

Lumen looks awesome. I was looking for the docs to determine how much of arc actually exists within lumen, but I couldn't find anything. So if you do this, please let me know.

Also, If I can get some time down the road, I'd like to implement some basic dom manipulation functions. Personally I see Lumen as the best means to do mobile app development in Arc (which is probably one of the best things that can happen for Arc IMHO). Arc on the server side, Lumen on the client side and a code base that's useable by both would be really nice.

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