Crystal 0.33
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Crystal 0.33
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Re: Crystal 0.33
#2Crystal is really nice! Cloning Ruby syntax but making it prettier is probably one of the smartest language design decisions that have happened in a long time.
It's definitely gotten further on my radar in the past year or so, though I remember reading this a few years ago and finding it pretty cool then, too:
https://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-crystal-fast-as...
Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223395
Seeing Lilith in (what was, I think) December was what really alerted me to the fact that it had come along so far, I had mostly thought it was dead before.
Lilith: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith
Relevant HN thread on Lilith: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860713
Re: Crystal 0.33
#3I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
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#4I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
Most of the people whining about performance and types probably don't actually use Ruby day to day.
Re: Crystal 0.33
#5I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
Most of the people whining about performance and types probably don't actually use Ruby day to day.
And Ruby 2.6 is already much, much faster than it was in the days when it was too slow for Twitter.
Ruby 3.0 should be much faster still.
Re: Crystal 0.33
#6I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
I've seen a lot of people (myself included) going from ruby to elixir
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#7I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
I use Python and I just don't like 1-based indexed languages. I would say that a better replacement for Python(at least for backend) is Go.
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#8I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
Crystal does not have mature web frameworks like Rails.
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#9I’ve been using Crystal since 2016, but have recently started to learn Rust. Rust definitely makes me appreciate Crystal’s pretty robust std lib. it’s more like Go in that sense.
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#10I wonder why Ruby users don’t flock to Crystal, and Python users to Julia. With all the whining about performance and types, they just stay put.
Some devs talk about types as if they're the One True Holy Silver Bullet, but that is far from an objective truth. There are no silver bullets in dev, only sweet spots.