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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby with Tom Richards by nathan_compton on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:48AM (#39652881)
I take it the interpreter they added a few years ago isn't mature enough to address this or it can't?
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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby with Tom Richards by fredrikholm on Saturday March 09, 2024 @01:10PM (#39653589)
It's not included in releases (you have to compile Crystal yourself if you want it), so I'd guess it's still a WIP.

And even if, it still has the same restrictions; any change means type checking everything from scratch, where the time it takes to do that scales (IIRC) worse than linear.

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