> The Hacker News website runs on Lisp.

You mean the message board? The website that has a grand total of 2 functions: post and comment?

> And yet, for what it is, this site is amazing!

It's 2 colors and text. That's it.

> ! I don't see them rushing to migrate to a python backend and a react-based frontend, no matter how many jobs there are for those.

It's A MESSAGE BOARD. A. MESSAGE. BOARD.

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azangru 3 days ago | parent [-]

> It's A MESSAGE BOARD. A. MESSAGE. BOARD.

Have you seen how many blog or portfolio sites people build with react? Sometimes even adding nextjs into the mix? Blogs!

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mexicocitinluez 3 days ago | parent [-]

So? That doesn't change the fact that HN is a dirt simple message board anybody could build.

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azangru 2 days ago | parent [-]

> That doesn't change the fact that HN is a dirt simple message board anybody could build.

What is this an objection to? If you follow this thread upwards, where was it suggested that we should be talking about things so complex that nobody, or only very few, could build? The whole pitch of htmx is that it is proposed for building things that anybody could build. The article in the title assumes that the target audience isn't building Google Docs, Figma, video editors, or CAD tools.

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mexicocitinluez 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's an objection to this:

> How many jobs do you see on the market that ask for Lisp? And yet, for what it is, this site is amazing! I don't see them rushing to migrate to a python backend and a react-based frontend, no matter how many jobs there are for those.

You pointing out that the dumb simple message board is written in LISP and doesn't need anymore more is a bit absurd.

No shit they aren't rushing to upgrade it. IT BARELY DOES ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.

Anytime a certain class of developer see the word "React" that end up saying the most ridiculous shit. Nobody, I mean nobody, thinks HN is a site worthy of replicating or achieving unless they're part of the .0000002% who couldn't find a prepackaged board from Google search results.

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azangru 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Nobody, I mean nobody, thinks HN is a site worthy of replicating or achieving

Wait what? You haven't seen all the hackernews clones that people make as an exercise of website building? You haven't seen lobste.rs?

	▲	krapp 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		lobste.rs is people from HN who think HN isn't nearly strict and niche enough. All of those hacker news clones are by Hacker News people for Hacker News people, usually to implement features Hacker News never will. Nobody outside of the HN community is holding up Hacker News as an exemplar of superior design or engineering, much less of a Lisp implementation. Anyone who's touched the Arc Lisp forum code knows how few fucks pg gave about the design of anything but the language itself. And still the original forum was so inefficient it would keel over and die under moderate traffic and internal links would time out and people's comments would just never post.