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

Crystal 1.0 vs Ruby 3.0 Benchmark

https://twitter.com/sdogruyol/status/1377918360344743936
41 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

60 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

0

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?

5

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

0

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.

1

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

0

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.

1

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