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Guile vs Hy

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When comparing Guile vs Hy, the Slant community recommends Guile for most people. In the question“What are the best Lisp dialects?” Guile is ranked 6th while Hy is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Guile is:

Chances are a system running enough GNU software will already have it installed.

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Guile
Hy

Pros

Laura Kyle
Brian Levy

Pro
GNU's official extension language

Chances are a system running enough GNU software will already have it installed.

Zack H

Pro
Easy to customize and extend applications

Guile makes it easy for users of your application to write extensions without needing to understand the plumbing of your program.

gilch

Pro
Python interop

Hy compiles to Python's abstract syntax trees. Python can import Hy modules, and Hy can import Python modules.

Laura Kyle
MagicalLiTieguai

Pro
Easier to read

Distinguished between arrays (or vectors) and function calls by using [] and (), respectively.

thermoplastics
gilch

Pro
Copyfree and open source

Uses the MIT (expat) license.

Cons

gilch

Con
Weak copyleft

LGPL

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