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Exhaustive matching is on the cards, parallelism is coming, and any type system changes in the future will be minimal. And yes, crystal isn't trying to be C, b

• qop 8y ago
  It's not the lack of features it's just the difference in what it's meant for. Crystal has a GC, it doesn't have a lot of memory control, etc. She just ain't that type of lady. Crystal isn't what I thought it was. That's not a bad thing necessarily, it's certainly nobody's fault.... For what I have in mind, rust fits my needs much more closely. I want to write a game and learn all about graphics wizardry and rendering pipelines and all the cool Carmackian arts I've been missing out on. My career is winding down, but I think I will retain my gray matter longer if I keep myself busy. If I were thirty years younger and starting out a career in web development, crystal would excite me. The prospect of all that ruby out there that will eventually need to be crystallized... Man, what an opportunity. I don't really have a specific idea in my head of what a crystal for systems development would look like so I'm not sure that I could really provide what's missing from crystal. Rust is made for systems from the start and there appears to be a large number of really smart low-level hackers on the scene already. I'm glad, because I don't know, so at least I can fail amongst a crowd. :)