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> 2007-02-18 doesn't let you navigate backwards

Yes, and we specifically left it as an exercise for the pokey reader to figure out why.

Arc does its own date stuff. We extended it a bit to be able to print things like "x months ago". Edit: and "Feb 31, 2017".

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Just curious: do you (as in Y combinator) use Arc for anything else or is it a "hobby language" for HN?

All of YC's original investment software was written in Arc, though it has been gradually factored out into other systems.

We use it for a browser extension that helps a lot with moderation work. And for general experiments. If I do something more ambitiously new it will probably be in Arc.

We use it for a browser extension that helps a lot with moderation work.

Oho, so Arc does compile to JS now.

You gonna release the compiler or what? (Sometime this decade.)

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