[joemccall86]

I'm curious if Crystal was considered given its speed and similarity to Ruby.

[hamandcheese]

I really like Crystal, but the lack of any large corporate sponsors or large production systems using it (that I’m aware of) means I would probably never choose it for anything besides toy projects.

[dtn]

Apparently Yahoo jp have used it in one of their internal tools

https://twitter.com/taichiro_dev/status/1047803131986292736

[jashmatthews]

Rust not having a GC and additional runtime is a large advantage when writing native extensions for Ruby.

[goatlover]

But does Crystal have either of those? It's also a statically typed, compiled language. Rust would require a complete rewrite of the code, while Crystal would only be partial.

[Scarbutt]

I'm curious why do you think developers should seriously consider a programming language that is still in flux and has no ecosystem?

[agumonkey]

I'd be worried of a false sense of similarity. Recently there was an article about crystal, some comments said Ruby was ~one inspiration and not the main goal. You could spend more time fighting your old habits with something that doesn't translate 1 to 1.

[djur]

I spent some time working on a Crystal project and the superficial similarities to Ruby were more confusing than anything. Crystal isn't just "Ruby but fast and statically typed". They are quite different languages.

[Thaxll]

Who's mad enough to use crystal in its current state?

[yxhuvud]

It is the perfect language for advent of code!