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Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by sdogruyol »

sergiotapia wrote: post #2

Anyone using Crystal in production? What do you use it for?

We use Crystal at RainforestQA to replace our heavy-load / slowish Ruby microservices. It's been great so far and we love it. We're also increasing the adoption to Crystal inside the organization.

Also Crystal has a dedicated a wiki page for production users

Used in production: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...

Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by Blackstone4 »

Crystal looks interesting although I decided to learn Golang instead. It's more mature and the WIP features described below made me cautious (i.e. what other features are immature).

Anyone know when Crystal will get concurrency-a-la-golang? i.e. running concurrent processes in parallel? At the moment I think it's still single-threaded. https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html

Still no windows support: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by Thaxll »

sergiotapia wrote: post #2

Anyone using Crystal in production? What do you use it for?

I'm not sure why anyone would actually use it in the current state, unstable, lack of libraries, lack of community and the biggest problem no multi-threading / windows support

Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by abritinthebay »

sdogruyol wrote: post #3
sergiotapia wrote: post #2

Anyone using Crystal in production? What do you use it for?

We use Crystal at RainforestQA to replace our heavy-load / slowish Ruby microservices. It's been great so far and we love it. We're also increasing the adoption to Crystal inside the organization. Also Crystal has a dedicated a wiki page for production users Used in production: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...

Interesting! I’m surprised you didn’t move to Elixir given the syntax similarities to Ruby

Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by RX14 »

Blackstone4 wrote: post #5

Crystal looks interesting although I decided to learn Golang instead. It's more mature and the WIP features described below made me cautious (i.e. what other features are immature). Anyone know when Crystal will get concurrency-a-la-golang? i.e. running concurrent processes in parallel? At the moment I think it's still single-threaded. https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html Still no windows support: ht…

Crystal has had concurrency, almost identical to goroutines, for a long time. It's just as if you're always running with GOMAXPROCS=1. And you can still get some excellent performance on IO bound workloads with a single core. The challenge is expanding what crystal is already good at to CPU bound parallelizable workloads by implementing parallelism. This work should be done before 1.0, we have a lot more resources to work on crystal from now on, because brian is working on it full time.

And as for windows support, I'm working on it right now. Cross-compiling "hello world" has been working for a while.

Re: Crystal 0.25.1 released

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Post by bsdnoob »

Blackstone4 wrote: post #5

Crystal looks interesting although I decided to learn Golang instead. It's more mature and the WIP features described below made me cautious (i.e. what other features are immature). Anyone know when Crystal will get concurrency-a-la-golang? i.e. running concurrent processes in parallel? At the moment I think it's still single-threaded. https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html Still no windows support: ht…

What do you think of Nim?
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