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Re:Towards Crystal 1.0 by moonchild on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:11PM (#22732747)
I find it a little sad that windows support is considered essential (and its lack is a dealbreaker), but linux support is not, even though developers predominantly use macos and linux.
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Re:Towards Crystal 1.0 by AlchemistCamp on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:57PM (#22733942)
Why do you believe more devs are on mac than windows? What country are you in?
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Re:Towards Crystal 1.0 by ricardobeat on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:03PM (#22733074)
What makes you say linux support is not essential?
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Re:Towards Crystal 1.0 by e12e on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:41PM (#22732942)
If you compare to ruby, there are a couple of quite nice packages for os automation that allows for scripting setup of services etc. That's a space where os level support is essential.

That said, crystal being new, and wsl 1/2 being a thing... I'm à little surprised for the demand for a windows version.

OTOH being able to create a gui rad ide like Lazarus or Delphi, that is cross-platform, compiles to native executables and uses crystal in place of Pascal would probably be great.

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