Firstly I'd like to mention that our messaging probably isn't consistent because it doesn't come from only one person. Crystal is a community and we all say sl

Firstly I'd like to mention that our messaging probably isn't consistent because it doesn't come from only one person. Crystal is a community and we all say slightly different things. The message we want to get across about the Crystal is that it is very Ruby-inspired, and that Ruby devs will feel at home. Crystal is often compared to Rust and Go, and the level of abstraction you will see when writing Crystal code will feel much more at home compared to Go and especially Rust. That being said, Crystal isn't Ruby, and you'll have more success writing a project from scratch for Crystal than attempting to port any >10k LOC codebase. Crystal isn't designed to make porting Ruby easy, and it hasn't been for a while. Crystal's goal is to make you as a Ruby developer feel at home, not your code. A lot of people have ported codebases from Ruby and talked about it, but you probably see only the successes, not the failures. In short, we want you to use Crystal not because it's faster and easy to port to, but because it's simply a better, more robust, modern language.