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I got it to work again with a user agent from Links: `Links (2.29; Linux 6.11.0-13-generic x86_64; GNU C 13.2; text)`.

Admittedly, I've tried not to document the implementation. Yeah, they're pretty much simple dirty Common Lisp macros. Internally, they're functions that are called with the argumen…

Yeah, at a certain point I realized that both the maintenance and the use of the language became much slicker if unnecessary deviations from Python were minimized. After all, when …

You can add all the same type annotations as in Python, but from what I've seen, type-checkers expect Python source text and don't just use standard Python introspection, so you'll…

You're welcome. There are no actual breaking changes from 0.29.0, so you're already up to date if you got that far.

Yes, such as: metaprogramming via macros and reader macros; arbitrary compile-time computation; removal of restrictions on mixing statements and expressions; and other arities for …

Sparse? I got a whole chapter for ya: https://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/macros

Learning Python is not required to get started and do some simple stuff, but it is effectively required to master Hy.

Hy-pothetically, yes, you could take Hy code in and spit Python code out via `hy2py`. I think at one point I considered supporting this officially, but then decided there was reall…

Now I know how those guys felt who were on the same episode of Ed Sullivan that introduced the Beatles.

I don't think so? https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-48754/Support-for-hy...

Thanks. I enjoyed compiling a huge list of buzzwords to use for it.

I see. That's pretty similar to the feature set of [pdb]( https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html ). You may then logically ask "Does Hy support pdb?". The answer is "sort of". …

1. I don't know what a breakloop is. Hy uses Python's exception system, which is more like a traditional exception system than Common Lisp's condition system. 2. No, sorry.

> Are there Python language features I can't use in Hy? At the semantic level, no. I work to cover 100% of Python AST node types with Hy's core macros. It does take me a little bit…

> this compiler is written in Python Yes, that's right. Hy is not self-hosted. > The various ways you can embed a Lisp look very different and have very different tradeoffs. Hy its…

I eliminated a lot of whimsy from Hy and its documentation years ago because it was distracting and created noisy test failures, but I did go too far at some point, and have tried …

I'm not sure. I was going to say that Mojo is proprietary software and so I've never tried it, but I just checked and apparently it's free now. If nothing else, you can probably ge…

Well, this is a little embarrassing: Clojure was one of the biggest influences on Hy in its youth, but that was mostly before I got involved in 2016. I never actually learned Cloju…

Remarkably enough, yes, we got it to work, on our 3rd or 4th try.

The author of the e-book is a different guy, Mark Watson. He isn't involved in the development of the language.

No, actually, although you could argue that the word "retire" isn't applied quite correctly in such cases. It's common for academics, for example, to continue doing much of the sam…

Hy slower than Python? It shouldn't be, at least at run-time. I maintain Hy. If you notice any meaningful performance differences, that's a bug.

As the Hy maintainer, I'd say that assessment is pretty accurate, at least on the Hy side.