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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by lmm on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:09AM (#13283963)
OCaml (well, actually Scala in my case, but I can understand why people wouldn't want to have to use the JVM) is already that, as far as I can see. What is it that Crystal offers that OCaml doesn't?
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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by coldtea on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:13AM (#13283984)
Doesn't share the fugly OCaml syntax.
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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by uryga on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:10AM (#13284406)
Not a great way to convince OCaml fans to use something else.
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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by oblio on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:15AM (#13284438)
All 3 of them? Jokes aside, they're probably aiming for Ruby fans (or fans of other dynamic languages).
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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by coldtea on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:49AM (#13284600)
I doubt Crystal's marketing goals are to convince OCaml fans...
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Re:A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 miles... by galfarragem on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:13AM (#13283979)
A gentle learning curve for developers with a Ruby background.
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