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Thoughts on Crystal? - Inori - 10-02-2017
In a nutshell, Crystal is a statically typed, compiled version of Ruby. I'm using it for a project I started recently and I'm thinking about porting Morrigan (my programming language) for the second time because it has a lot of features that would make language prototyping much easier.
The official site is here and it's available through pretty much every major package manager.
RE: Thoughts on Crystal? - mothered - 10-02-2017
After sifting through It via your link, It's syntax Is well structured and seems quite easy to grasp.
Why am I not surprised that the hash tag Is also used for comments? It'll be Interesting to see how you Incorporate and utilize Crystal Into your project.
RE: Thoughts on Crystal? - Blink - 10-02-2017
Crystal actually seems really cool. It's quite fast, usually faster than Go. And, it has the supposed simplicity of Ruby.
I've gotten used to C syntax, so it'll be a bit hard to transition back if I try to make stuff in Crystal. On top of that, I've never used Ruby either. Yet, I'll probably make something in it soon.
RE: Thoughts on Crystal? - Synthx - 10-02-2017
This looks interesting, I might try to learn this sometime. I don't know Ruby, nor C. Hopefully it is easy to learn.
RE: Thoughts on Crystal? - Chainlike - 10-07-2017
neat, hadn't heard of this. I love anything with fibers/channels. i have to admit my impression of Ruby syntax has been tainted though. Many years ago, someone dumped a bunch of broken ruby scripts on my lap and asked me to use them to scrape a million urls. fixing that garbage was hellish. I haven't looked at a single line of ruby since.