Crystal is progressing well, but they don't have the resources of a lab full of incredible engineers thrown at it. It's definitely a threat though. The Amber F

Crystal is progressing well, but they don't have the resources of a lab full of incredible engineers thrown at it. It's definitely a threat though. The Amber Framework is very familiar to people who know Phoenix or Rails. Personally, coming from Ruby, Crystal has a slightly steeper learning curve. However, I feel that magic spark deep down now that I've spent more time with it and I'm more aware of what inference can do and how to use it for my benefit. Little safety things that seem irritating at first, but then you put the pieces together and understand them a bit more. T | Nil is a culprit here. It seems obnoxious, but then you realize, I can just chain methods in a case statement, I don't have to check for nil over and over, just in the topmost part of whatever code it is. It's not how I normally think, and my instinct was wrong based on my initial understanding, but now I'm much more comfortable with it. As for tooling, Crystal is rather weak. This too will come with time.