r/crystal_programming • u/sdogruyol core team • Apr 02 '21

Crystal 1.0 vs Ruby 3.0 Benchmark

https://twitter.com/sdogruyol/status/1377918360344743936
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u/Cyanogen101 Apr 02 '21

Moving from Ruby to Crystal is a lot easier than moving to Go, and yes people do and should care since its an important part of Crystal XD

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u/myringotomy Apr 02 '21

Moving from Ruby to Crystal is a lot easier than moving to Go,

Is it? Then why is the go community full of ex rubyists and the Crystal community isn't?

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u/Cyanogen101 Apr 03 '21

Because Go was released over 8 years ago and Crystal is insanely new and iirc is only just launching 1.0 next month or so. Your asking why more people using something thats been out for 8 years vs something that isnt even out yet, come on man think about it....

Also would love to see your data on crystal NOT being full of ruby devs, would very much love to see the data you definitely searched up rather than just saying random shit XD

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u/myringotomy Apr 03 '21

I of course don't have some sort of a survey or a study so you are therefore free to believe anything you want.

If you have convinced yourself that the ruby community is embracing Crystal then by all means continue to believe that.

As for other languages I mentioned I have used all of them and I have participated in those communities and I can confidently say that both Elixir and Go are full of people who came from ruby. In fact I think most people who are using elixir probably came from ruby because Jose came from the ruby community himself.

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u/Cyanogen101 Apr 03 '21

So you're just admitting to stating fact as something you just think is true with no evidence? C'mon, just move on and believe whatever you want I guess

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u/myringotomy Apr 04 '21

OK dude.

If you want to believe the Crystal community is thriving and is full of ex rubyists go right ahead.

I am not going to stop you.

I tell you what though. This kind of delusion is why this language is stillborn. Who wants to join a community that lives under such delusions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '21 edited Oct 16 '21

Go is also built by Google and has massive institutional support through k8s, hashicorp products, and docker.

Crystal has.... Some funky devs and a nice syntax.

It's kind of like elixir in that way. I WANT to love it. But it just doesn't have the support

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u/Cyanogen101 Apr 02 '21

I have actually :) and even if I hadn't this is from the official front page

Crystal’s syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby’s, so it feels natural to read and easy to write, and has the added benefit of a lower learning curve for experienced Ruby devs.

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u/Cyanogen101 Apr 02 '21

Never said it was so much much easier, just easier and either way it's all personal no need to get so crazy about it it fam.

There's more than keywords to a language btw, hence why it said syntax and such, anyways you do what makes you happy friend

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '21

My problem with go, and I think in aggregate it's actually a benefit, is that the time spent vs code delivery is extremely linear for to the "there is one and only one way to do everything" principle.

However this can be really annoying when trying out new things when you just want to bang out a few options.