Actually, I'll expand on that and say that crystal isn't "static typing for rubyists", its more like "the best bits of ruby applied to static typing". There's a

Actually, I'll expand on that and say that crystal isn't "static typing for rubyists", its more like "the best bits of ruby applied to static typing". There's a big difference in that the bits of ruby that crystal chooses to take may not be the parts that are most familiar to rubyists. That it is so similar to ruby is a huge complement to ruby in that there was so much that the team wanted to take. The hardest part of learning crystal for rubyists is unlearning their ruby habits when working on crystal. Once you're over that hill you might find crystal a wonderful language in its own right.