Porting Ruby to Crystal

Re:Porting Ruby to Crystal by andrew_wc_brown on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:54AM (#13838547)

Won't have to learn GoLang or Elxir. Crystal on Rails!

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Re:Porting Ruby to Crystal by ch4s3 on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:44AM (#13838895)

I can't speak for GoLang, but Elixir isn't exactly a straight replacement for Ruby the way Crystal(more or less) is, it makes a lot different promises, and makes different assumptions. It looks familiar, but is paradigmatically quite different. If you are interested in FP, Elixir is a great way to get started.

Crystal seems quite nice though.

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Re:Porting Ruby to Crystal by holydude on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:46AM (#13838916)

Crystal also is not Ruby 2.0. It just feels like Ruby the same way RubyMotion feels just like Ruby. But it is not Ruby per se. Nonetheless Crystal really looks cool!

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Re:Porting Ruby to Crystal by ch4s3 on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:26AM (#13839751)

Interesting, I've really only written like 10 lines of Crystal, so I guess I should take a closer look.

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Re:Porting Ruby to Crystal by amorphid on Sunday March 12, 2017 @08:38PM (#13854297)

Elixir feels nothing like Ruby to me, except for some superficial similarities in the syntax.

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