Hello, World! tl;dr =====
Version: 0.9.6 License: Expat (sometimes called MIT) Hilarious: Yes Site: http://hylang.org Hy is a wicked funny hack that lets you interop (in both directions) with Lisp from Python (or with Python from Lisp). It's pip installable: $ pip install hy [...] $ hy => (print (.join ", " ["Hello" "World"])) Hello, World (REPL even has cute readline bits mostly workingish, with a few known issues) What's new ========== There's a new release of hy (version 0.9.6) pushed to PyPi. It's hand-crafted with the utmost care from the AUTHORS[1] to help you (yes, you!) hack using Lisp without giving up your Python libs of choice (or even your Python libs giving up on you!) The source is on GitHub @ http://github.com/hylang/hy (star it, fork it, hack it) It's undergoing changes quite quickly - so, be careful! The API / language is being worked out very quickly. The two releases since the last post here (0.9.5 and 0.9.6) features the following select features (for a full list, check NEWS, this is seriously cut down) * Added all the missing math operators. * We now support float and complex numbers. * Keywords (such as :foo) are now valid and loved. * `try' now accepts `else' * Added "not" as the inline "not" operator. * `let' macro added * Added "~" as the "invert" operator. * Added the tail threading macro (->>) * UTF encoded symbols are allowed, but mangled. * If hoisting (for things like printing the return of an if statement) have been added. '(print (if true true true))' OK, what is it (technically) ============================ Hy is a set of hacks, implemented in Python, to lex and compile a Lisp variant (called `Hy', which looks very similar to Clojure in some ways) into Python AST, and transparently load it into sys.modules using a PEP 302 import hook. I gave a lightning talk about Hy at PyCon, in case anyone's having flashbacks. You can see that talk on my blog (http://blog.pault.ag/post/46982895940/), or watch a full hour-long talk about Hy at Boston Python at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulekCWvDFVI Thanks! ======= Thanks, folks! Tweet about it, hack with it, hang out with us on #hy on freenode[2]. Fondly, and with just tons of love, [1]: * Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> * Thomas Mashek <tho...@thescoundrels.net> * Amrut Joshi <amrut.jo...@gmail.com> * Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> * Will Kahn-Greene <wi...@bluesock.org> * James King <ja...@agentultra.com> * Julien Danjou <jul...@danjou.info> * Nicolas Dandrimont <nicolas.dandrim...@crans.org> * Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> * Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> * Vladimir Gorbunov <v...@suburban.me> [2]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hy -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
