fmnssun/hy

A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python

Hy

Lisp and Python should love each other. Let's make it happen. Try it.

Hylarious Hacks

• Django + Lisp
• Python sh Fun
• Hy IRC Bot
• miniKanren in Hy

OK, so, why?

Well. Python is awesome. So awesome, that we have so many tools to alter the language in a core way, but we never use them.

Why?

Well, I wrote Hy to help people realize one thing about Python:

It's really awesome.

Oh, and lisps are neat.

(fan art from the one and only doctormo)

Project

• Code: https://github.com/hylang/hy
• Docs (latest, for use with bleeding-edge github version): http://hylang.org/
• Docs (stable, for use with the PyPI version): http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/
• Quickstart: http://hylang.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
• Bug reports: We have no bugs! Your bugs are your own! (https://github.com/hylang/hy/issues)
• License: MIT (Expat)
• Contributor Guidelines & Code of Conduct
• IRC: Join #hy on freenode