# arclanguage/anarki

Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp; for commit privileges submit a pull request.

Repository: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/anarki
Homepage: http://arclanguage.github.io
Language: Arc
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: arc, lisp, webapp, lisp-1, racket-lang, linux, darwin, macos
Last push: 2025-05-26T21:44:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 43/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 23, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6746, "days_push": 464, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1203, forks 164 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.568410+00:00)

## What it is
Anarki is a community-managed, permissively-maintained fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp, implemented on Racket and distributed as an interactive REPL plus interpreter. It bundles News, a Hacker News-style web application demonstrating Arc's web development capabilities.

## Use cases
- experiment with the arc lisp dialect in a repl
- run a hacker news style forum site
- learn lisp through the arc tutorial
- prototype web apps in arc
- contribute patches to a community lisp fork

## When to choose
- you want to explore or hack on the Arc Lisp language with frequent community updates
- you want to run or customize the classic News forum application
- you need a REPL-driven Lisp environment built on Racket

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade language with stability or compatibility guarantees
- you want a mainstream Lisp like Common Lisp, Scheme, or Clojure
- you need long-term support or a large ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: interpreter, programming-language, http-server, cli
- domain: programming-languages, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: arc-lisp, lisp-dialect, racket, repl, community-fork, hacker-news-clone, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- arclanguage/anarki (main) score 43

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.568410+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:22:45.166490+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.568410+00:00, sha fd1d5d9c2e28)
  - homepage: http://arclanguage.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:23.768826+00:00, sha 8af1e8f98b2c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.