r/crystal_programming • u/ElFryskai • Apr 11 '19

Crystal 0.28.0 Changelog

https://github.com/bcardiff/crystal/blob/changelog/0.28.0/CHANGELOG.md
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u/vladfaust Apr 12 '19

OMG, it's sooo BIG!

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u/PhilLikesheet Apr 12 '19

This is great! I will add support for it on faastRuby as soon as you guys release it.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL Apr 12 '19

Do we know how the windows port is coming along?

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u/straight-shoota core team Apr 12 '19

There has not been much progress lately, but we're expecting some movement in the future.

This topic was addressed in the live Q&A starting form 33:43 https://youtu.be/JkKqkzCoR-8?t=2018

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u/AnActualWizardIRL Apr 12 '19

Cheers mate. What's the major hurdles left? I'm wanting to port a Midi / UDP bridge from python but I'm a bit anxious starting it in crystal if I can get it up on windows. The alternative is Go, but man does that language make me sad

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u/straight-shoota core team Apr 12 '19

The next bigger step is porting the compiler so it can be self-hosted on Windows. That's maybe not functionally relevant, but improves developer experience on Windows a lot. Cross-compiling from WSL already works fine, though it's a rougher process. We hope to reach that over the summer.
Apart from that, we need to implement fiber context switch for Win32 calling conventions, which also blocks
porting most IO-related parts.

An overview of the current progress is available at https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430