Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by uptownfunk on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:44PM (#12226774)

> Just face it: there is an need for something intermediate to fill the gap of a script-like, native compiled, low-overhead, modern language, and a GC is part of this. The popularity and "I want to be cool so I hate it" trend of Go proves this, but the devops space is getting new useful cool toys at a breakneck speed, pretty much exclusively written in Go.

Could the answer be lbstanza when it gets there? Lbstanza.org

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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by pjmlp on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:08PM (#12227353)

> the devops space is getting new useful cool toys at a breakneck speed, pretty much exclusively written in Go.

This is why I came to peace with Go's way of life.

Way better to push for less code being written in C, than argue about the language design decisions.

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