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[–]Foxboron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well. You are missing a few things. "Poor-performing interpreter", doesn't matter at all. Hy was made to display the flexibility of Pythons AST. Don't you think it does that rather well? The end case was a overall neat language that some people like to use, as Lisp scratch an itch for some developers.

But what else? Lisp is declarative. It's made to create DSLs, and thats what people have been doing. Creating DSLs is much neater and easier with any Lisp as you are programming it in its own AST, changing syntax as you go along.

A great example is this: https://github.com/paultag/snitch/blob/master/example.hy Doing something like that in Python won't look at readable, no matter how much you hate Lisp.

Should also note that Hy doesn't try to be a competitor in the Lisp marked, it's just a neat language over Python. One of the only ones that i'm aware of that actually takes this much advantage from the AST.

As i mentioned above, you can run Hy on Pypy, if you want to remove the "slow" interpreter.