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Matt Might is an exceptional human, mind-numbingly sharp, incredibly kind, and an astonishingly great communicator. His precision medicine work has a real shot at saving many many …

Came here to post the same thing. This is a wildly bad site that's not affiliated with the Debian community.

The speed of Python with all the readability of scheme

Aw thanks!

It does! We run tests on pypy, and it for sure works. I did at one point even test hy with rpython, I can't remember if that will still work or not, but it did compile like 4 years…

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cgo has its own set of problems, and there is no single C API. The version comparison isn't in shared library form, and breaks API a lot. The C parser for dependencies isn't the sa…

Eep. I do some messed up stuff with SNI; what's the error you're seeing?

Thanks! (re: Hy :) ) Sorry, I didn't document this since i'm rushing stuff out as soon as I get it together -- I was looking at the Trove classifiers, and setting candidate to true…

Yes, everyone's making fun of me for not saying 2 years rather then 3. Also, our releases aren't timed, they're based on bug count, so the timing of the releases wasn't even the ma…

Yep! My email is paultag@debian.org - sign up for the porting list @ https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/py3porters-... Yes, it's hilarious that version of Mailmain ne…

Hy core here! It works both ways, and bi-directional interop is intended! Just `import hy` then you can import any `.hy` on `sys.path` :D (yes, this means you can make Hy code pip …

Nice! This is awesome! Great work! :D

Consider contributing to Debian! We've got tons of wicked hackers working on issues on a massive scale. If you're keen on it, feel free to join #debian-mentors on oftc and say hi!

No. It's not. If you saw the people filing the bugs, you wouldn't say this.

I wrote about why this was a bad idea at: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ If you want a clear failure mode - if this installs requests globally, think about the chaos if you'r…

Interesting, thanks for that! I'll read it over on the train in the morning and see if I can't fudge it in :)

* lisp-1 (Python rules) * Python (sucks) * 2-way * Yep! CLOS syntax * Yep! hy.contrib.loop - to be promoted soon * Yep, they're OK, relies on dispatch char that's static * Very lit…