Crystal programming language

“One of the biggest complain about Crystal is its compile time.”

“It's even more flexible than Go because you can tune different contexts for specific workloads.”

“the nice developer experience, great stdlib, managed memory, native performance”

“Crystal is nice, but for network programming, Go simply cannot be beaten by a language that has a equally limited type system.”

“longstanding issues in the runtime where exceptions at the wrong time during I/O bring the runtime to a halt”

“I think Crystal is really interesting and worth considering”

“there was an actual desire for great Ruby-like syntax without the implications of using it”

“Glad to see the continued progress on adding support for Windows.”

“It works great for this, and for the kind of packages I was writing”

“great that aarch64-linux support is now promoted to Tier 1”

“the scheduling engine was far behind Go in terms of parallelism”

“having a strong typed compiled language helps it immensely, and with crystal you don't have to sacrifice the easiness of programming”

“it is a nice language to write elegant and performant code in”

“if you're a Rubyist needing native performance, it's another tool in your toolbox”

“Crystal is like a typed Ruby with the performance and concurrency flow of Go”

“in a few aspects - better than Go even, and has way more pleasant aesthetics”

“pleasantly surprised at how smooth the overall DX was, and how little memory it consumed”

“still very far behind Rust/Tokio and Go in a lot of important benchmarks”

“it's a network effect problem and I wouldn't use it for professional use, only personal.”

“Crystal is great and I think it nailed statically typing in a Ruby like language”

“it's similar syntax yet statically typed which leads into more efficient compiled code”

“Crystal has an explicit static type system and is actually optimized at the language level for AOT compilation.”

“A very well done type system + native code performance, with the ease of use of Ruby is a massive selling point, IMO.”

“like ruby but you can ship a single native binary is already huge”

“I think the small community and lack of packages(or not updated) is a bummer.”

“Looks like they solved for 2 big things in these years: fast development cycles and windows support.”

“The language still have many breaking changes post 1.0, no windows support until recent two years and the compiler is slow”

“Execution contexts closing in to being enabled by default is a big one.”

“I laud crystal for doing what ruby would not. It's a great language”

“Crystal lang deserves a look given the article writer's preferred language attributes. It has OO paradigms, elegant composability, efficient codegen etc.”

“If you like Ruby but don't like Rails, take a look at Crystal”

“LLVM compiled, strong static typing with explicit nulls and very good type inference”

“Arguably Crystal, Odin, Nim, Zig, V, Vale or Factor are even better!”

“it's good for making things that are fast and easy to deploy”

“my extensive Ruby background that I have now been able to carry over to Crystal”

“I think Crystal, Nim, Julia and F# were my favorites from last year's AoC”

“Expressiveness and get-shit-done ability similar to the one of Ruby while being way faster in execution.”

“a readable high level language and sane package manager that compiles to reasonably performant machine code”

“I've been exploring using Crystal + MRuby to create apps, it's been fun so far.”

“IDE support is still quite shaky and the developer community is not large enough yet”