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Re:Crystal for Rubyists by cxr on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:36AM (#33788083)
Okay. Sounds like at best a mounting argument against Ruby. (I myself have avoided Ruby in the past for similar reasons.) And gesturing towards Golang is really just highlighting a conscious design decision by the Golang team—who didn't have to design it as a static language in order to achieve the same effect. They're orthogonal issues.

Where does the generalization to dynamic vs. static languages come from?

> Github's Hub tool is a good example.

I gave an example already—a counterexample, that is. Was there something wrong with it?

Re:Crystal for Rubyists by brigandish on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:42AM (#33853164)
Yes, there something wrong with it, because the distribution of the runtime is done via binaries i.e. browsers. Using Go or Crystal is mimicking that level of ease. Ruby, or JS (which is more of a mess than Ruby even though the runtime is already distributed) are still a pain to share. No credit goes to the JS distribution system(s) nor the form that the code itself is distributed in for the most difficult bit being done by browser vendors bundling the runtime.
Re:Crystal for Rubyists by cxr on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:40AM (#33865464)
This another weird comment—for different reasons compared to the original. There are several statements where the truth status of the claims are hard to ascertain, because the statements they're part of are incomprehensible. The claims in the statements that are comprehensible are untrue.