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Hy Lang

Cheatsheet

• Whenever I miss using a lisp, I often find myself turning to hy.
  • I often find this makes me enjoy programming a lot more again.
• Snippet to have a script header for hy files with uv

#!/usr/bin/env -S uvx --from hy hy

• Reference: https://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.2.0/api -- I just have this open to ctrl-f through

• Tests: using conftest.py from hy itself for testing https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/conftest.py

• When changing macros bytecode doesn't necessarily recompile, this was very confusing.

Someday

• Stuff I'd love to see in the ecosystem (will probably vibe code this)

  • more explicit testing support
  • lsp, autocomplete
  • more emacs integration for the REPL
  • benchmarks
  • shinier emacs hy-mode with clearer highlighting
  • add to devdocs.io and similar for easier looking up

• And for building taste

  • write a lot more hy
  • explore customizing / extending / internals
    • better error handling
  • work through old favorites in the language

• Misc nits

  • Add a banner to old versions of hy

• notes/python/hy
• notes/python/typing_cheatsheet
• notes/tools_for_thought
• notes/python
• notes/escape_codes
• notes/exploratory_programming
• notes/pratt
• letters/2023-11-26
• notes/blogroll
• notes/code