Peace, Love and C++

(btw, the source is on github)

During the sprints at PyCon in a spare moment after some awesome OpenGov hacking, I ended up doing the unthinkable:

rpython support in Hy.

Yes. That’s right. Lisp —> Python —> C —> x86 instructions.

The thanks here goes to Romain Guillebert - who is a really funny rpythonista and took the time to sit down and help me with this frankly insane idea.

It works, though. I filed a bug on shipping rpython bits from PyPy’s Debian package (hi, tumbleweed!), which should make building this a skitch easier.

Finally, and unrelatedly, I also just got a .hy —> .pyc compiler working (huzzah!) which means no one will ever know we wrote anything in Lisp, ever.

As always, play with the REPL, star the code or have a laugh with it.

Let me know what you hack up!

I’ll post the lightning talk I gave after it’s posted :)