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Is arc still alive? Will there be a new version of arc? If yes - when?

2 points by lplvlsl 3877 days ago | 4 comments

Hi! I'm new to arc, what I've learned so far makes me extremely excited about this language.

Now I'm making a choice about which tools to use for my next projects and in which direction to go. I would really love to choose arc.

But I need to know - is project still alive? It wasn't updated in 4 years, can I expect a new version in a reasonably close future?

I don't care how popular it is or how many features it has, I just want to know that it is under development, that Paul Graham hasn't stopped working on it.

3 points by akkartik 3876 days ago | link

PG has said he's still working on it, but you probably shouldn't rely on seeing further updates from him.

The community here makes updates from time to time, and I think we're pretty responsive to questions and bug reports. But our changes are not 'blessed' by PG or anything. Since PG has said that "future releases can break anything", such a blessing wouldn't be of much use anyway.

Bottomline: It's not for you if you just want features and don't care how they're built. But if you like the idea of gradually mastering the internals of the tools you rely on -- welcome aboard! You don't have to know anything at the start; we try to be very helpful.

(New version of http://arclanguage.org/item?id=17869)

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2 points by jsgrahamus 3876 days ago | link

For a perpetual newbie in Lisp/Scheme/etc, they have been very helpful to me.

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1 point by hk_mars 3862 days ago | link

I would also design a hackable lang. in the very-soon future. Now I have to work and live. hayhay... I like Paul. :)

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1 point by akkartik 3875 days ago | link

I should add a link to the community-managed version: http://github.com/arclanguage/anarki#readme

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