Crystal 0.34

[strzibny]

If only all the attention and love for Golang goes for Crystal. I will keep dreaming... :)

[flafla2]

Indeed. I don't know much about this language, but the x86-64 OS written from scratch in crystal was one of the most impressive things I've seen during my time on HN [1]. In the thread about it [2], it was mentioned that the author was in high school.

[1] https://github.com/ffwff/lilith

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860713

[rishav_sharan]

All Crystal needs, is 1 major company to support it. :(

[keithyjohnson]

I hope someday Crystal will supplant Java.

[oweiler]

That is unlikely to happen. Crystal has no corporate backing, it has no distinguishing features (in comparison to other, more popular languages), and most of all, it has no Rails.

[suzuki]

Crystal is comparable to Java in performance. I am impressed with it. See https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme#performance and https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme#performance-on-the-t...

[3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

Where is there use-case overlap with the JVM ecosystem and crystal?

[pjmlp]

First they need to support Windows as well as Java 1.0 did back in 1996, then they have 25 years to catch up.

Plus the JVMs already have jRubby and TruffleRuby, including AOT support.

[dang]

Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331005

Other threads in the past year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20897029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110253 (small)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694006

Other large threads can be found among various crystals:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[rvz]

I'm sorry but this is a new post (posted yesterday) which appears to be specifically about 0.34, which should be worth discussing about the changelog?

[partomniscient]

Today I found out Crystal was a language that I didn't know existed until now, however one thing I couldn't work out about Crystal was a simple outline of its intended reason for existence/purpose?

i.e. You should consider Crystal instead of Ruby/lang-other for xxx because yyyy... or is this someone attempting to write a new language simply because they want to have what they think is 'the right thing' (which is perfectly acceptable, but not clear if this is the only reason).

I guessed it was inspired by Ruby from the syntax, but aside from not having too many variations of do..while, I couldn't easily discern what its intended reason for being is.

(I kind of got the comment about the best thing about it is there is no Rails for Crystal).

I did poke around quite a bit and it's not in the FAQ, so it probably should be.

[adamnemecek]

Types and speed. Also native.

[captn3m0]

I worked on a simple cli-tool using crystal over the last few weeks, and it has been pretty great. The standard-library is nifty, and there are shards for common problems (not everything though).

Waiting eagerly for a way to cross-compile to Windows so I can build/release binaries the way golang projects do.

[ksec]

Apart from Lucky [1], what other Web Framework are there for Crystal?

[1] https://luckyframework.org

[viraptor]

There's https://amberframework.org/

[TeddyDD]

https://kemalcr.com/

[rishav_sharan]

Like in Go, you don't need a framework. the http module has all that you need. I personally am working on a barebones api server without using any libraries or frameworks.