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That never stopped the Go community from porting Go to Windows. It was never ported by core maintainers, but by Go developers themselves.
And yet it was ported, and has OK support. Crystal on Windows is a non-starter right now.
I havent had issues with Go on Windows or any OS, is there something broken about Go in Windows?
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I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong). 2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t…
Does anyone actually care about Windows support?
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Okay, port your existing Ruby code to a compiled language, giving it multiple times the speed? Maybe three is a slight business opportunity here. Also, give your developers a more productive language that can go where Ruby can't (like OS development), which is 90% instantly recognizable — may also be worth something?
Is it really so hard to port Ruby code to any of the languages I mentioned? Even with Crystal you will still have to make changes to your code, is having to use a slightly different syntax such a big difference? If you've got Ruby code and you haven't already ported it, how badly do you need the speed?
Neat project, though slightly undermined by the drawing of the half-naked underage girl in the readme
So This guy (an high school student), writes a OS, from scratch, and you made an account to say that his choice of wallpapers "undermines" his project. I guess you're one of the people that supports things like that bullshit code of conduct that is popping up pretty much everywhere. RIP the hacker spirit of the 70s. May it rest in peace. Welcome to this brave new world where people like you are welcome instead of bei…
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Maybe it's just because I come from Ruby, but Crystal seems like an amazing language. I'm interested why it seems to be getting little attention compared to Go, Rust, & Julia. It seems in the same league to me. Kotlin and Swift have more obvious reasons for their adoption.
I wouldn't say it's getting "little attention," rather it's relatively new (for a language) and not backed by a major player who can instantly give it a huge spotlight / platform. For being a 5-year old indie language out of South America, I think it's doing quite well, and projects like this are good evidence of why. Ruby is an outstandingly productive language. Copying the expressive syntax and ergonomics of Ruby i…
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That seems decidedly unsafe to say, but even if you’re right, the second paragraph doesn’t follow from the first. “Everyone generalizes from one example! At least, I do.”
It's been shown repeatedly. Arthur Whitney is another example. In fact, basically every major technological innovation of the past two centuries has been because of people doing this. The first was just to share an example. The second paragraph is common knowledge.
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Is it really so hard to port Ruby code to any of the languages I mentioned? Even with Crystal you will still have to make changes to your code, is having to use a slightly different syntax such a big difference? If you've got Ruby code and you haven't already ported it, how badly do you need the speed?
Mentally context switching between Ruby and any other language to do the translation actually is kind of a hassle.
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Maybe it's just because I come from Ruby, but Crystal seems like an amazing language. I'm interested why it seems to be getting little attention compared to Go, Rust, & Julia. It seems in the same league to me. Kotlin and Swift have more obvious reasons for their adoption.
What's Crystal's unique selling point? It's older than Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Nim, or even OCaml, and doesn't really offer anything they don't. More Ruby-like syntax? Fine, but most people don't particularly like Ruby syntax.
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Kotlin - it's on JVM which is a good thing for some and a bad thing for others. It's easier to distribute standalone crystal binary for example. Swift - crystal throws exceptions, swift explodes... Ocaml - the functional approach is not for everyone. Rust - I like rust a lot. But sometimes I want to write something quick and I'm happy to sacrifice some memory and speed to not have to deal with the ownership issues. N…
You can use Kotlin/Native [0] or just plain Kotlin over Java with GraalVM which produces compact binaries. [0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html