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Any downsides to using Hy (over Python)? Other than my coworkers don't know Lisp? More concrete: Are there Python language features I can't use in Hy? Or performance penalties in using Hy?
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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.
A breakloop is a REPL operating in the context of condition handling. When a condition is signaled, you can use the breakloop to modify state and direct how the condition should be handled (including fixing something local and letting the current function proceed by ignoring the condition). Seems like that would only be doable by altering CPython to at least have a hook in the initial exception processing (or maybe t…
I was having some difficulty figuring out how Hy actually is translated to Python (and wasn't even sure if it was compiled or interpreted). Eventually I found on Wikipedia the following: > Hy is a dialect of the Lisp programming language designed to interact with Python by translating s-expressions into Python's abstract syntax tree (AST). Also, looking at the code on Github suggests this compiler is written in Pytho…
> Hy is a Lisp dialect that's embedded in Python. Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into Python abstract syntax tree (AST) objects, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form.
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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.
A breakloop is a REPL operating in the context of condition handling. When a condition is signaled, you can use the breakloop to modify state and direct how the condition should be handled (including fixing something local and letting the current function proceed by ignoring the condition). Seems like that would only be doable by altering CPython to at least have a hook in the initial exception processing (or maybe t…
Years ago, under the influence of Lisp romanticism late into my university years, I worked on a domain-specific language for designing and analyzing control systems as my senior design project, using Hy! Just checked, it's been five and a half years to be specific. Really, time flies.
Here it is for anyone curious: https://github.com/celaleddin/gently
Since then, I've been following Hy from a distance and it's amazing to see it's still active. Thank you everyone involved!
I loved the HYPE POST.[0] I work with corporate software. It is absolutely brilliant. [0] https://github.com/hylang/hy/discussions/2609
Does PyCharm support it already?
It would be awesome if there were an example of something that can't be done in Python because it takes advantage of lisp's "functions are first class".