Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released
by coldtea on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:00PM
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>What is it about Crystal that outweighs the very boring practical downsides of production use of obscure and immature languages?
Tons of startups, and tons of billion dollar companies, run on Ruby / Rails. How is it "obscure"?
Crystal sure.
Then again, PG who created Hacker News used Common Lisp, which at the time had about the same developer pool as Crystal give or take (well, not really, but close enough, compared with industry favorite languages).
Tons of startups, and tons of billion dollar companies, run on Ruby / Rails. How is it "obscure"?
Crystal sure.
Then again, PG who created Hacker News used Common Lisp, which at the time had about the same developer pool as Crystal give or take (well, not really, but close enough, compared with industry favorite languages).