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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by danappelxx on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:56PM (#13448893)
But Crystal doesn't run on BEAM, which (I assume!) is something OP was looking for.
Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by goatlover on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:19AM (#13448953)
Right, but my post was in response to the one above about how we don't need another dynamic language because a statically typed language like Go is so much better at catching errors. Even though you have to write more code while being restricted in what can be expressed. Thus, Crystal makes sense, best of both worlds, and what not.

Of course if you're looking for functional on Beam, then neither Go or Crystal are good comparisons.