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I never seem to be able to get into all of these new languages, mostly because I do not see a clear use case for it. The last two languages I learnt were Python
by yoz-y 8y ago
I never seem to be able to get into all of these new languages, mostly because I do not see a clear use case for it. The last two languages I learnt were Python, because we have our backend written in it and Swift for a personal project because it is what one writes iOS apps in today.
I fail to imagine a kind of application that would warrant to learn a new general purpose language on top of what I already know. Well, except massive parallelism for which I would probably reach for Erlang or Go.
- sam0x17 8y agoAt BlockVue we are using crystal in production to solve some very computationally expensive constraints programming problems that we would otherwise likely have to tackle in C/C++.
- yoz-y 8y agoIs this something which is inherently better handled by Crystal? For example does it have good libraries for contraint solving? What was your main motivation to choose Crystal?