I know you’re (effectively) trolling here, but there are many reasons to “actually” use it. The community is great and helpful (check out the Gitter activity if you have any question about that). Lack of Windows support (for now) doesn’t matter if....you don’t use Windows. Multi-threading is being worked on.

You’re rehashing the same 2 things many folks point out that Crystal is missing in its pre-1.0 state and while they’re obviously important for widespread adoption, they’re not reason in and of themselves to dismiss a language that’s otherwise super interesting to many.