paultagon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Try Hy”
Well done! If anyone wants to learn more: link link link and a quick 5 minute lightning talk: link to this video (Creator here) Hack on!
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Programming languagesCloud and DevOpsPythonLisp and ClojureDocker and containers
A collection of lightning talks from PyCon 2013 featuring the debut of the Hy Lisp dialect and Solomon Hykes's first public presentation of Docker.
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1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended for its historical value as the first public demonstration of Docker and the introduction of the Hy programming language.
pixelmonkeyon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Hy”
hy was first introduced to me at PyCon 2013 in a lightning talk by @paultag, the language's creator. It was a very fun lightning talk. You can still watch it online here: link to this video I remember that day pretty clearly because in the same lightning talk session, Solomon Hykes introduced the Python community to docker, while still working on dotCloud. This is what I think might have been the earliest public and recorded tech talk on the subject. link to this video This was also the same PyCon that Eben Upton opened with a keynote to discuss the mission of Raspberry Pi, while also announcing that each of the 2,500 attendees would receive a free physical Raspberry Pi at the conference. It was a pretty darn goo…
PuercoPopon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python”
The original hy annoucement makes it clear that they embed a Lisp by compiling with Python bytecode. You can see it in the following video about the 16:25 mark link to this video
Slackwiseon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python”
The actual statement in the video is: > ...because this is a frontend like LLVM or GCC that compiles instead of bytecode, uh, to Python AST, um, so this Lisp compiles entirely to Python @ link to this video
pixelmonkeyon Hacker News • Mentions
On “A Decade of Docker Containers”
…Clara. Then I found an HN comment I wrote a few years ago that confirmed this: ... I remember that day pretty clearly because in the same lightning talk session, Solomon Hykes introduced the Python community to docker, while still working on dotCloud. This is what I think might have been the earliest public and recorded tech talk on the subject. link to this video Starts at 26:19 (t=1579). This was also the same PyCon that Eben Upton opened with a keynote to discuss the mission of Raspberry Pi, while also announcing that each of the 2,500 attendees would receive a free physical Raspberry Pi at the conference. It was a pretty darn good year of PyCon; 2013 was apparently a good vintage for open sourc…