I agree and that's my original point, in order to use Crystal I need to unlearn things. I guess I'm lazy enough that the performance benefit isn't a big enough

I agree and that's my original point, in order to use Crystal I need to unlearn things. I guess I'm lazy enough that the performance benefit isn't a big enough benefit for me to trade off the flexibility of Ruby. Nothing against Crystal, I think it's great but it would almost have been better coming to Crystal from something other than Ruby.