I am new to Lisps but i did some programming with Haskell and i have understanding of functional programming. I am very excited by the language and i could get my hands on it fast. It is a charm since it compiles down to python and i can see what is going on. I think Hy makes it easy to learn Clojure for Pythonistas as well.
There was a recent discussion about Hy from another post. You may be interested in reading the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8696975 (309 points, 3 days ago, 77 comments)