awesome-functional-python VS hy

hi everyone .. sharing this link to "awesome functional python" :: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python .. i wish i would have found it a few months ago when starting my functional python journey, especially the libraries :)

Really strange new lands can be found in functional programming languages like Haskell, Elm, OCaml, Elixir, and the like. Functional programming in Python isn't something I have adopted fully, but I do find it a helpful paradigm. Interesting tools available for it.

https://github.com/mpkocher/Functional-Programming-Technique...

I covered a few core concepts (e.g., functions as first-class citizens, closures, partial application, etc...) and added a few real world examples of using a functional centric design. The text/format has some rough edges, but overall I think the text is useful for internalizing how to leverage a functional-ish approach.

Other resources.

https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python

I see there is a short section about Python (6 resources).

I have been maintaining for the last 5 years a slightly richer collection at: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python/

1) It's not released on PyPI (there is a different project with the same name).

2) How different / better is it that the similar projects listed on: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python ? (Also: feel free to make a pull request if you want your project listed).

Cool, I thought it was dead (like the fictional character called, coincidently, "Snake"). I see that active development has restarted 6 months ago, seemingly. Kudos to everyone involved, specially @Kodiologist who seems the main contributor over the recent period.

(Shameless plug: more functional languages that look like Python, or compile to one of the Python VMs: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python#lang... ).

Not exactly the same (doesn't embed into the source like this did), but I believe Hylang[0] is the best Lisp package available for modern Python.

[0] https://github.com/hylang/hy

Isn't that a bit what hy (https://hylang.org/) tries to do ? AIUI it is a lisp interacting directly with the AST of Python, allowing seamless interop: Python modules can be used from hy and vice versa, everything is transparent.

I’ve been keeping loose tabs on this and Hy[1] for a while, but I’ve had some trouble figuring out the major differences between them and the use-cases for either. Would love to see an in-depth comparison in the form of a blog post sometime (though maybe the answer here is to do the research and write one up myself).

1: https://hylang.org

“Python is for scientists. Lisp is for engineers.”

Then what does that make Hy language?

https://hylang.org/

Re Languages with lots of example code and LLM’s

With translators or things like Hy lang, one could get the LLM’s to solve your problem in Python before converting it to another form. Then, you just need a translator. If lacking one, it’s easy to translate by hand.

The practicality of this concept will probably vary by use case. My experiments had GPT doing sketching, implementations, boilerplate, and even porting Python to Rust. A legally-clear LLM trained on multiple languages could probably be fine-tuned to do Python to LISP conversions. If not, Hy might be a stepping stone, too.

You could say so: I've been maintaining the compiler since 2016 ;). Infinitesimal Quest 2 + ε (SQ) exists more to advance Hy than for its own sake.

If you are using Python - you might find Hylang (https://hylang.org) interesting.