Why Crystal Is My Next Language

Re:Why Crystal Is My Next Language by bhuga on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:06PM (#17281450)

Crystal looks great in many ways, but it's hard to go all-in with a new language that lacks parallel processing. Go, Elixir, and Rust all have great concurrency stories, and their adoption has a lot to do with that.

It is a gorgeous language, though, with a very easy to read syntax. I'd love using it if it had something like goroutines, which would look great with its block syntax. Good luck to the team working on it; I hope it's a contender.

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Re:Why Crystal Is My Next Language by yxhuvud on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:54AM (#17281914)

This seems a bit confused. You complain about parallelism, but then raise other languages for their concurrency stories. Concurrency is not dependent on parallelism and indeed Crystal do have a nice concurrency story with fibers and channels that perform pretty well.

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Re:Why Crystal Is My Next Language by hamandcheese on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:22PM (#17281506)

Do you need truly parallel processing?

Crystal already has a great concurrency model, it’s just not parallel yet.

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Re:Why Crystal Is My Next Language by fgimian on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:20AM (#17281761)

Yep, this is true. I'm hopeful that this will come soon :)

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