So I think a short list of big API differences are something like:

* Hypothesis/Hegel are very much focused on using test assertions rather than a single property that can be true or false. This naturally drives a style that is much more like "normal" testing, but also has the advantage that you can distinguish between different types of failing test. We don't go too hard on this, but both Hegel and Hypothesis will report multiple distinct failures if your test can fail in multiple ways.

* Hegelothesis's data generation and how it interacts with testing is much more flexible and basically fully imperative. You can basically generate whatever data you like wherever in your test you like, freely interleaving data generation and test execution.

* QuickCheck is very much type-first and explicit generators as an afterthought. I think this is mostly a mistake even in Haskell, but in languages where "just wrap your thing in a newtype and define a custom implementation for it" will get you a "did you just tell me to go fuck myself?" response, it's a nonstarter. Hygel is generator first, and you can get the default generator for a type if you want but it's mostly a convenience function with the assumption that you're going to want a real generator specification at some point soon.

From an implementation point of view, and what enables the big conveniences, Hypothesis has a uniform underlying representation of test cases and does all its operations on them. This means you get:

* Test caching (if you rerun a failing test, it will immediately fail in the same way with the previously shrunk example)

* Validity guarantees on shrinking (your shrunk test case will always be ones your generators could have produced. It's a huge footgun in QuickCheck that you can shrink to an invalid test case)

* Automatically improving the quality of your generators, never having to write your own shrinkers, and a whole bunch of other quality of life improvements that the universal representation lets us implement once and users don't have to care about.

The validity thing in particular is a huge pain point for a lot of users of PBT, and is what drove a lot of the core Hypothesis model to make sure that this problem could never happen.

The test caching is because I personally hated rerunning tests and not knowing whether it was just a coincidence that they were passing this time or that the test case had changed.

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis