The Crystal Programming Language
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The Crystal Programming Language
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Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#2What is the edge it gives when compared to Rust, Zig, and Nim?
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#3What is the edge it gives when compared to Rust, Zig, and Nim?
Crystal's performant enough, but its key differentiating feature is its Ruby-like syntax.
It's easy to write, and comparable in performance to Go and similar.
Rust, Zig, and Nim are solving different problems.
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#4What is the edge it gives when compared to Rust, Zig, and Nim?
Crystal's performant enough, but its key differentiating feature is its Ruby-like syntax. It's easy to write, and comparable in performance to Go and similar. Rust, Zig, and Nim are solving different problems.
Nim and Crystal feel like they are in exactly the same space? GC, fast, single executable compilation without runtime (I would also throw Go into this list).
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crystal's performant enough, but its key differentiating feature is its Ruby-like syntax. It's easy to write, and comparable in performance to Go and similar. Rust, Zig, and Nim are solving different problems.
Nim and Crystal feel like they are in exactly the same space? GC, fast, single executable compilation without runtime (I would also throw Go into this list).
there is a runtime. its just baked into the final executable. you can't have garbage collection without one.
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#6I clicked on 7+ pages. I still can not find how to use an array
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#7What is the edge it gives when compared to Rust, Zig, and Nim?
Probably the biggest differentiator compared to those three is that it's object-oriented. Rust, Zig and Nim are all procedural.
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#8I clicked on 7+ pages. I still can not find how to use an array
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#9I clicked on 7+ pages. I still can not find how to use an array
Bud, there's a search box at the top of the docs...
https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.5/syntax_and_semantics/...
Re: The Crystal Programming Language
#10Now, all we need for crystal to succeed is numpy, scipy, something pandas-like, and of course matplotlib (not plots, matplotlib).
By the way, how are we on data-science friendly IDEs? Debugging? Automatic thorough documentation generator? Tooling in general? Is the time to first plot fast?
Where I work, we desperately need a fast python.