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by PuercoPop 640 days ago
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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vui-LupKJI

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and for those interested in history, Docker was first announced 10 minutes afterwards on the 26:24 mark.
Now I know how those guys felt who were on the same episode of Ed Sullivan that introduced the Beatles.
There is a reason why Hylang was one of the first official Docker images!
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

@ https://youtu.be/1vui-LupKJI?t=1020