[moe]

Go is not a good comparison.

Crystal is expressive, 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal. The DX in Crystal is really closer to Ruby than to Go. It's essentially a very fast and type-safe version of Ruby.

[pelasaco]

> The DX in Crystal is really closer to Ruby than to Go.

Me as polyglot can say that is much easier to switch completely between languages and paradigm than write or talk similar (but not equal) languages. So it is maybe a great reason for beginners to start to play with Crystal as Rubyists, but as soon as you start to work daily with the language, other factors like good documentation, tons of examples, great standard lib, active community and development, etc are much more important than if its remembers ruby or not.

[straight-shoota]

Crystal core developer speaking:

I think this argument is less about the concrete syntactical and semantic similarities to Ruby, but the shared general idea to focus on developer happiness. For example, code is easy to read, yet still expressive.

[mirekrusin]

Maybe with LLMs it won't matter much anymore? Maybe in the near future we'll have copilot for crystal as vscode plugin and the rest doesn't matter much - just quality of this plugin?

[unrealhoang]

> 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal

This is a vast exaggeration. And even if I grant it, it's still thousand of loc that you don't have to write because of available libraries.

[antifa]

IMO crystal's value is that I can do things normally associated with golang without the horrors of actually dealing with golang's absence of a good type system and other quirks like error handling.

[DennisP]

Although they do try to make it easy to use C libraries:

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.8/syntax_and_semantics/...