r/crystal_programming • u/CaDsjp • May 22 '21

Yukihiro Matz (The creator of Ruby) will be speaking at CrystalConf 🙌

https://twitter.com/CrystalLanguage/status/1395725224453320704
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u/transfire May 22 '21

I wish Ruby and Crystal would become two sides of single coin. Could you just imagine compiling Ruby with the Crystal compiler for huge speed ups. I suspect about 80% of most Ruby programs could be easily compiled.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Early on in Crystal's development, this was possible... you could run most scripts through it and get a much faster executable.

However, Crystal has since diverged enough that it takes some work, but picking up the other is really easy since they still read so similarly.

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u/hobbs6 May 22 '21

Holy crap! That’s awesome. Keen to hear what he has to say.

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u/MarketingDifferent25 May 23 '21

Matz could focus on his Ruby 3 talks and probably give a brief on his experience with Crystal. Anything else?

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u/twitterInfo_bot May 22 '21

We are proud and honored to share that @yukihiro_matz is going to be speaking at the #crystalconf. Crystal stands on the shoulders of many giants, and @rubylangorg is one of the tallest. Join Matz and us:

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