Congratulations -- and thank you! I've been playing with Hy on and off (tried to do transformers with it, and then released https://github.com/kunalb/orphism written in hy). Time to pick it up again and take it for a spin
Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
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Re: Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
#12Does Hy also work with Mojo?
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 get a lot of Hy code to run on Mojo via `hy2py`, if Mojo supports a lot of Python as it claims to.
Edit: actually, confusingly, the GitHub repository for Mojo doesn't have an interpreter. The language is still proprietary.
Re: Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
#13I enjoyed the less serious part a lot. I wish more programming related projects could embrace the whimsical. That might the best way to honor the python tradition in any case :)
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 to reintroduce a little whimsy more recently.
Re: Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
#14You can get FP compositions without throwing away Python syntax (as Hy does): https://github.com/thyeem/foc
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#15Wow! It has come such a long way since its early, humble beginnings.
I saw the original lightning talk that introduced Hy to the world at Pycon those ages ago. Soon after I met Paul and started contributing to the early versions of Hy. I was responsible for the CL-style kwargs (you’re welcome), some minor innards, and a library or two.
Whimsy is useful, especially to keep enthusiasm up. It’s nice when hackers can be hackers and not every thing is business.
While I haven’t been involved in years it brings a smile to me face to see the project continues apace. What a great milestone!
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#16Congrats on the release! Very impressive.
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#17Congrats. It's been a great pleasure to watch it evolve. :)
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#18Congrats! Could you compare the language with Clojure?
I haven't used Hy, but I am the maintainer of a Basilisp which also compiles to Python and aims for reasonably close compatibility with Clojure if you're interested.
Re: Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
#19Does Hy also work with Mojo?
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 get a lot of Hy code to run on Mojo via `hy2py`, if Mojo supports a lot of Python as it claims to. Edit: actually, confusingly, the GitHub repository for Mojo doesn't have an interpreter. The language is still proprietary.
Thank you for the hy2py pointer and kudos @ 1.0.0!
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#20Congrats! Two questions:
1. Does it support REPL-driven development? (condition system, breakloop, etc.)
2. Is there a standalone distribution? Distributing python in itself is a hassle, ideal situation would be to simply distribute a single Hy binary that contains all dependencies within it (either statically linked or as a zip file extracted in tmp directory).