SweetScript

y hooked up Cloudflare to HN, they got all the same benefits a big cluster would provide anyway. People can be prejudiced against this simplicity all they want, but it's hard to argue with results. You don't even need to know SQL to start using it. "But migrations --" well, Arc makes it super easy to define a "template", which is just a set of fields, and each field is whatever you want them to be. https://github.com/evanrmurphy/SweetScript/blob/6b4ed26acc9c... (deftem item id nil type nil by nil ip nil time (seconds) url nil title nil text nil votes nil ; elts each (time ip user type score) score 0 sockvotes 0 flags nil dead nil deleted nil parts nil parent nil kids nil keys nil) So yes, theoretically if you wanted to rename "kids" to "children", you're gonna have to process all the old data. But 1. then don't do that, and 2. even still, it's not hard to do that anyway. It's sort of similar to mongoose record definitions. But look, HN is proof positive that this system can work and can scale to a top-1000 website. 99% of webapps won't even come close to those performance requirements. And when you do approach them, you can find ways to make it scale. My main focus has been updating Arc to run on JS, and to add keyword arguments. That way you'll be able to use the whole JS ecosystem too.

yourself to read that code for a week straight, you'd find it is actually quite readable. It's terse because it's for getting shit done.