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Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by unixhero » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 6:57 AM UTC

I fucking love Crystal and Ruby. Never has a language literally made me happy like those two. "Amazement wow is this how easy I can achieve this. This is incredible!!!".

Conversely Perl and C++ made me miserable, as I tried and tried and gave up learning them. I prefer Excel formulae to working with them.

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by unixhero » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:02 AM UTC

noaheverett wrote: post #3

raydiatian wrote: post #2

> Crystalian [being the name for Crystal users/evangelists] Man, there have to be better alternatives than this. Did you try “crystacean?” Chuckles in .rs.

Crystalist? See https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rubyist

This is the way

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by unixhero » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:02 AM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #9

raydiatian wrote: post #2

> Crystalian [being the name for Crystal users/evangelists] Man, there have to be better alternatives than this. Did you try “crystacean?” Chuckles in .rs.

Cooks? :-)

Easy there Jesse

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by singularity2001 » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:03 AM UTC

How is wasm support going? I know they have to "throw away" many of their inventions in lieu of single threads and untouchable stacks, but the core of type inference still maps well to wasm (?)

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by rvz » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:15 AM UTC

raydiatian wrote: post #2

> Crystalian [being the name for Crystal users/evangelists] Man, there have to be better alternatives than this. Did you try “crystacean?” Chuckles in .rs.

Crynge.

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by pilaf » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #19

glenngillen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crystian? ;)

With Crystmas as official language day? I'm in!:)

Sounds appropriate given that Ruby already does all its major releases on Christmas day, considering Crystal's close relationship with Ruby.

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by amval » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:42 AM UTC

aaaronic wrote: post #10

raydiatian wrote: post #2

> Crystalian [being the name for Crystal users/evangelists] Man, there have to be better alternatives than this. Did you try “crystacean?” Chuckles in .rs.

Geodes?

Geodudes?

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by freilanzer » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 8:12 AM UTC

With advent of code coming up I'm torn between Kotlin and maybe Crystal.

https://adventofcode.com/

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by open-source-ux » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 8:54 AM UTC

Crystal is a lovely language. The language community is small though, and learning resources are also small. The story for Crystal is the same story for many programming languages: grow the interest of users, and find generous funding.

My impression is that not many Ruby programmers have switched to Crystal. The slow(ish) Crystal compilation will not please Ruby users. And Crystal for Windows is still in beta.

Despite these factors, Crystal is a pleasure to use - fast, readable, and a well-featured standard libary.

Re: Crystal for Rubyists

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Post by azangru » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 9:14 AM UTC

> What’s awesome about Ruby?

> Dynamically typed

As someone who has experienced the joy and at least some feeling of safety from moving to typescript from javascript, I would seriously question that dynamic typing is awesome.