Hy Alternatives

Hy is described as 'Wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hy for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Hy alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hy are Lua, C#, Ruby and Perl.

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  1. Allegro CL is the most powerful dynamic object-oriented development system available today, and is especially suited to enterprise-wide, complex application development. Complex applications with billions of objects are now made easy with Allegro CL 9.0.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Clozure CL (often called CCL for short) is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history. Some distinguishing features of the implementation include fast compilation speed, native threads, a precise, generational, compacting garbage collector, and a convenient...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    LispWorks is a commercial implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. NAAb icon
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    Polyglot programming language that embeds 12 languages in one file with built-in LLM governance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  5. Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to seamlessly reach into the native world and compete seriously with JVM's performance.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. Pluto icon
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    Pluto is a superset of Lua 5.4 designed for general-purpose programming. While being remarkably compatible with Lua 5.4 source-code & bytecode, it enhances the standard library & adds more than a dozen highly-desired syntaxes such as switch statements, compound...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. femtolisp icon
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    femtolisp is a simple, elegant Scheme dialect. It is a lisp-1 with lexical scope. The core is 12 builtin special forms and 33 builtin functions. It is fast, ranking among the fastest non-native-compiled Scheme implementations.

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    • Self-Hosted
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