Re:Why Go and Not Rust?
by GrayTextIsTruth on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:35AM
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Crystal has been very nice on a project at work. Ruby-like syntax but statically typed, compiled language so a lot of the things that bites ruby programmers don’t even come up.
It’s what I was hoping Go to be, it feels clean. It beats Go in lots of benchmarks, loses in others.
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I would second this. I moved from Go to Crystal. Crystal has been great to work with. Due to a rich standard library, the absence or fewness of third-party libraries may not be much of a problem, especially if you are looking for developing web applications and command line tools (two areas where I have used it). It also has a very friendly and helpful community.