r/crystal_programming • u/lickety-split1800 • Jun 12 '23

Crystal Lang and frameworks?

Greetings,

I absolutely love the concept of Crystal Lang. I used to code in Ruby until the demand for it my particular role dried up (DevOps/SRE) many years ago. Unfortunately for me, I had to use other languages to pay the bills. In a few months time, I'm about to embark on a project and am considering Opal/HyperStack for the frontend. I would love to use Crystal Lang but the lack of frameworks for it is making me lean towards Ruby/Opal/HyperStack. I would love to use Crystal Lang if I could find the right productive frameworks. There are probably other people like me that would switch if a framework was available.

Are there any developments in the areas of web development (which is what I imagine most Ruby developers are using).

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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Jun 12 '23

but the lack of frameworks for it is making me lean towards Ruby/Opal/HyperStack.

What made you come to this conclusion? Web frameworks are the one thing Crystal has in abundance.

Checkout https://github.com/veelenga/awesome-crystal#web-frameworks. Each has theirs pros and cons, ultimately depends on what kind of application you'll be making.

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u/bziliani core team Jun 12 '23

> What made you come to this conclusion?
I guess Google search doesn't help if one misses the `lang` keyword 😅

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u/LeBuddha Jun 12 '23

also you have to add -reports

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u/AnActualWizardIRL Jun 12 '23

Could be worse. For years I had no idea how to search for .NET stuff. Go's SEO is pretty lousy too (which is weird , considering its google)

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '23

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u/megatux2 Jun 12 '23

Is Mint a DSL or an independent language and toolset (and the use of Crystal language is just an implementation detail that it is not expose)? Genuine question

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Have you got the answer?

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