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Re:The Crystal Programming Language by perfmode on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:43AM (#13209857)
There are always trade-offs. Sometimes you care about performance (C++) and are willing to sacrifice useful features that are costly at runtime. Sometimes you care about individual developer happiness (Python) and you're willing to sacrifice performance.

There's no silver bullet.

Re:The Crystal Programming Language by mirekrusin on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:12PM (#13212946)
Hey, Crystal is the silver bullet! :) It's extremely performant (uses llvm <<and it's optimisations>> to generate binary) and makes happy dev (even better than python imho).
Re:The Crystal Programming Language by yoz-y on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:51AM (#13210112)
There are no silver bullets but do we need a complete arsenal of copper ones? I think many of the new languages would be better off as libraries for the ones that already exist.
Re:The Crystal Programming Language by AstralStorm on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:12AM (#13210186)
The problem is, if you need an arsenal of bullets, C++, for all its messiness, fits the bill.