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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by PixyMisa on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:24AM (#21863188)
Unique? There are a hell of a lot of computer languages out there. The only unique ones are those that are so bad that no-one ever did that again.

The selling point for Crystal is that it has a clean syntax that's easy for Ruby or Python developers to pick up (almost the same as Ruby), but compiles to standalone binaries that run really, really fast.

I mostly work in Python because the libraries are a lot more mature, but I use Crystal when I need to produce a standalone binary.

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by Shorel on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:31PM (#21868080)
> but compiles to standalone binaries that run really, really fast.

In a world with Go, Rust, D, C++ and C, this part requires comparison with these other languages.

Faster than Ruby and faster than Python doesn't cut it.

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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by dom96 on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:42AM (#21863850)
Have you given Nim a try, as a Python developer it seems like it would be right up your alley.
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