Whenever this is mentioned, it is usually the top comment (like this one I mentioned recently [0]), which shows that many reader agree. Yet, nothing's been done on this easy change for 10+ years. @dang, can you at least give a reason, like "too lazy", "we don't agree", "we don't like changes".
There's a part of me that suspects that the arc compiler has bitrot to the point HN can no longer be rebuilt. Has pg even touched arc in a decade, or more? I don't think it was ever much more than a prototype in the first place.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36460399