Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Graham's startup business incubator named Y Combinator have been written in Arc, most notably the Hacker News web forum and news aggregator program.
Graham also thinks that efficiency problems should be solved by giving the programmer a good profiler.
[7] When released in 2008, Arc generated mixed reactions, with some calling it simply an extension to Lisp or Scheme and not a programming language in its own right.
Shortly after its release, Arc was ported to JavaScript, and was being supported by Schemescript, an integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse.
[9] The first publicly released version of Arc was made available on 29 January 2008,[10] implemented on Racket (named PLT-Scheme then).