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HN is built using arc which is really just an abstraction layer built with racket (previously mzscheme).



Yes, and I am not sure if this was addressing my comment. I believe the Arc implementation here (despite being a language built with Racket) is run with its own implementation of continuations.

I mentioned people complaining because, well, people complain when you get timeouts with your continuation. That is why when you click More at the bottom of the page, you see a URL that looks like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=N5yDJXCzVXXV8kqTp57A7D

I believe this is calling into the continuation space. I could be wrong, however. I am just starting my Scheme journey.

Nonetheless, sometimes continuations do not work well on HN and I see people mention that. It is different way to handle state (Racket calls their Racket server stateless for this reason). I just wanted to point that, even if people will pass judgement from their experience here, it is a cool concept nonetheless.

Also, more experienced people should correct my analysis of HN if I am wrong.




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