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Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by rhencke on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:57AM (#17424878)
How is Ruby an obscure language...?

Their developers are already proficient in Ruby. Crystal is a very, very close cousin of Ruby, syntactically and structurally. This isn't like jumping from Java to Haskell.

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Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by MaxBarraclough on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:21AM (#17425014)
I didn't know it was that similar. Neat idea for a language.

The 'Boo' language does the same for Python.

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Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by AsyncAwait on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:48PM (#17426687)
I'd say Nim is for Python what Crystal is for Ruby.
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Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by MaxBarraclough on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:05PM (#17431306)
On closer inspection I agree - hadn't realised Boo uses the Common Language Infrastructure.
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