I remember discovering Crystal 3 or 4 years ago and loving the concept but waiting for the language and tooling to mature. It looks like years later a lot of pe

I remember discovering Crystal 3 or 4 years ago and loving the concept but waiting for the language and tooling to mature. It looks like years later a lot of people are still in this same boat. While Ruby took app development by storm, I feel the pendulum shifted towards microservices with statically compiled binaries. But Go can be overly cumbersome for simple projects with a "role your own everything" mentality. I hope Crystal 1.0 bridges the gap and can provide the portability of compiled binaries with the beauty and speed of development of Ruby.