Hy Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Python's “Disappointing” Superpowers

  Hy: https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/ I tend to stick to vanilla python though, mainly because Hy is too much of an hassle for my use cases. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Why Lisp?

  Q: is there any game dev happening in Lisp? A: https://kandria.com/ and https://itch.io/jam/lisp-game-jam-2022 Q: how do I write a website with Lisp? A: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html#easy-routes-hunchentoot and https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Web-Examples.html Q: do I have to use emacs for developing Lisp? A: No, https://github.com/vlime/vlime and... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer

  I really like Hy because it's fully inter-operable with Python. But its documentation is insufficient for anything moderately complex, and its tooling support is pretty basic. If Hy were well documented and supported I'd use it for all my throwaway scripts and prototyping -- today I use Python for that. Source: over 1 year ago

• Every programmer ever.

  You're looking for https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable. Source: over 1 year ago

• Val on Programming: What makes a good REPL?

  I've been using the Hy REPL[0] whenever I've wanted to drop into a python REPL. The lack of whitespace formatting with Hy is great, but it still has access to all of python's libraries. [0] - https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What lisp language to choose as a beginner?

  If you already know python, I’d say hylang would be the best one to get started, and then move to some “truer” LISPs, like CL or Scheme. Source: over 1 year ago

• A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg

  Does this not work? `pip3 install --user hy` as mentioned in the first page of the docs: https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Lisp didn’t add any value to my life

  Since experience with Python is more important to you, and you seem to want to reinvigorate your interest in Lisp, I would recommend perhaps writing some programs for fun -- not for profit, or work experience, just purely for your own curiosity and fun. Try using The Hy Programming Language, which is a Lisp-like language that compiles to Python. Source: almost 2 years ago

• CL vs Racket

  I can't say much about Rust, but my impression is that they put some serious handcuffs on mutability. Javascript's OO baggage is well known, though they've been moving (excruciatingly slowly) toward encouraging functional style where practical. Python actively makes functional style painful, though efforts like Hy do help me feel better about it. Source: over 2 years ago