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hissp
- Hissp
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What's the most hilarious use of operator overloading you've seen?
If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).
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Pythoneers here, what are some of the best python tricks you guys use when progrmming with python
Hissp is really cool for metaprogramming Python. There's also macropy, but it's harder to use.
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Lush – Lisp-like language for deep learning designed by Yann LeCun
I prefer https://github.com/gilch/hissp, where Hy has to use shims to pretend statements are expressions, Hissp just targets the expression subset in the first place. (though as you mentioned, hy has a lot of literature and support around it, where as you're going to have to find your own way around hissp)
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A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
No shortage of options, e.g. Dg, Mochi, Coconut, and Hebigo (based on Hissp[1]).
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Other than having a wider range of libraries and beingthus being more "general purpose" and "practical" is there anything that makes Python an intrinsically better programming language than Lisp?
If you want Lisp metaprogramming plus Python ecosystem, check out Hissp
- Lisp.py
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What are some amazing, great python external modules, libraries to explore?
Hissp is really interesting. Read through the docs and you'll understand Python more deeply. It works well with Toolz and Pyrsistent.
- Why Hy?
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can't import python submodules
It has nothing with lsp but with structure of hssp module. Literally, module hissp has no attribute 'reader'. Have a look
janet
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Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
I like Clojure, but I never had any good opportunities to use it other than for a few small hobby projects. It is unfortunate that it is so huge with tons of dependencies and no simpler native implementation. I started looking at various LISPs and Schemes to find something lighter to use instead and ended up settling for Janet that I think is Clojure-like enough to be comfortable to use, but in a small native binary with no dependencies and can be embedded in other native programs. I am sure for big, real, projects that Clojure makes more sense, but for my hobby projects and scripts I do not think I will install it again. I am still happy for the things I learned from learning Clojure. It was a real eye-opener for an old OO-programmer.
- Why Fennel?
- Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.
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Red Programming Language
Thanks!
I thought about another multiplatform, homoiconic, highly compact language: https://janet-lang.org/ (takes 803 kb on my machine).
It has no types though.
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Systems Programming with Racket
Racket is great, and if you like it you might find Rash interesting:
Janet and Gerbil Scheme are also worth a look:
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fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and community: https://janet-lang.org/
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Sharing Saturday #461
Scripting language of choice for WWWW became Janet. Technically, it's Lisp. Raw Lisp still adds plenty of overhead, making it not much better than JSON. That's when WDL was born.
- Administrative Scripting with Julia
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Are there smaller Clojure-esque Lisps available ?
But you can try Janet for fun https://janet-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
hy-lisp-python - examples for my book "A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language"
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
fennel-cljlib - Port of clojure.core namespace to Fennel (mirror)
rlua - High level Lua bindings to Rust
joker - Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter.
libpython-clj - Python bindings for Clojure