We are delivering a new Crystal release with several bugfixes and improvements.

I learned about Crystal from somebody’s Lemmy comment a couple weeks ago. Amazing and under rated language.

Their announcement is pretty lackluster tho lol.

  • AlexEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    If you find Crystal intriguing I suggest to checkout Elixir. And if static typing is more to your liking, then Gleam.

    Both run on the BEAM (Erlang VM) which has a very robust concurrency model and resiliency built into the way you build applications.

    I’ve been using Elixir for years now professionally (fullstack) and I honestly never want to go back.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I’ve looked into Elixir a bit, I’d probably be into it or Rust if Crystal didn’t exist, more so than Go. Something about languages that run in a VM turns me off tho, reminds me of Java too much I guess. I’ve never heard of Gleam, that makes two languages I’ve learned of due to Lemmy in like 3 weeks!

      • AlexEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I wouldn’t dismiss VM languages outright. I’m also not a fan of the Java VM but the two VMs are very much very different. Also Erlang (and it’s VM) were built for telecommunication, and the problems they tried to solve 30 years ago with it are very similar to modern backend engineering problems.

        Erlang is in large parts also what allowed WhatsApp to scale to it’s userbase with only 30 engineers.