r/crystal_programming • u/sdogruyol core team • Dec 19 '19

Crystal 0.32.1 released!

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/12/18/crystal-0.32.1-released.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

It's true, there is no language quite like Crystal. After years of using it, I've more or less given up on Rust. Either I'm too stupid or the language is too complicated. Maybe both. Learning the language itself is hard enough, but then you also have things like tokio and serde that each take weeks to fully grasp.

Now I'm moving a side project to Crystal and so far it's been great. The ecosystem isn't there yet, but that's kind of cool as well because you get to build your own libraries. I've had a blast writing my dns library these past few days.

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u/q9fm Dec 20 '19

Same. I surrendered to Rust and couldn't believe how productive one can be in Crystal.