I find myself looking for an excuse to pick up Crystal ( https://crystal-lang.org/ )... all the compiled goodness of Go but more Ruby-like.
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I don’t see it replacing Ruby for web development. Though I can see me using it for cmd-line tools or small microservices
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Dumb question: why bother with compiled for e.g. CLI tool? Seems low perf needs…?
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enjoying it when I've gotten a chance to play but haven't put anything into production yet
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i also enjoy a lot the readability and how the standardization around it make very easy to read other people's code
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I find the toolchain to be more important than a language. Also the hardest part to learn when learning a new language.
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And a lot of what I like about Ruby is un-compileable :-)
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Supposedly having a robust, modern stdlib is a major focus. (cc
@sferik to confirm) But building a community around the lang will take time.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’ve played with it for a few evenings. It’s really close to Ruby — like, you can just type Ruby and there’s a good chance it works
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