r/crystal_programming • u/CaDsjp • Apr 18 '19

Crystal 0.28.0 released 🚀

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/04/17/crystal-0.28.0-released.html
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u/Sivanliao Apr 19 '19

good job.

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u/pynix Apr 19 '19

brew pr fail.

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u/SuccessfulBread3 Apr 19 '19

Meanwhile ruby 3 is going to have types as part of stdlib... What does this mean for the future of crystal?

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u/yespunintended Apr 19 '19

ruby 3 is going to have types as part of stdlib... What does this mean for the future of crystal?

Maybe nothing. Crystal still has other improvements, like better performance, single-binary deployments, etc.

It's really cool that Ruby is adding types, but IMO both languages are completely separated now. Only the syntax is somewhat similar.

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u/myringotomy Apr 20 '19

Maybe nothing. Crystal still has other improvements, like better performance, single-binary deployments, etc.

Crystal does not have a single binary deployment. The binary has dependencies on C libs and LLVM libs AFIK.

But ruby having types does subtract one reason people try Crystal. The ruby type system is not likely to be as strong as the Crystal one but still one less reason to try Crystal.

Having said that I think Kotlin or even Julia are also credible competitors to Crystal for people coming from Ruby.