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Any Julia programmers who have tried Crystal? I've never quite seen the point with Crystal when you got something like Julia. Although I guess there is a value

Any Julia programmers who have tried Crystal? I've never quite seen the point with Crystal when you got something like Julia. Although I guess there is a value in familiarity. I was a big fan of Ruby back in the day, but I just feel that our understanding of what makes good language design has evolved since then. The heavy OOP focus in Ruby seems very 90s in retrospect. I don't think it makes sense to restrict dispatch on single objects. Real world problems often don't fit that paradigm.

sam0x17 8y ago
Crystal has OOP features, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to. I do some scientific research in crystal and it is all modules with functions calling other functions and dealing with structs. I love the fact that I can create C-style structs with member methods in Crystal.
RX14 8y ago
On the language level, Julia isn't statically typed, and it doesn't have ruby syntax. On a tooling level, binaries are easier to deploy than the whole julia JIT and your whole source code. And crystal has dynamic multiple dispatch. It's used a lot, it's great.