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Crystal suffers from other problems. They diverged too much from type annotations and use macros / metaprogramming too much which immensely increases the compil
by theredbox 8y ago
Crystal suffers from other problems. They diverged too much from type annotations and use macros / metaprogramming too much which immensely increases the compile times.
- bjz_ 8y agoI don't know about Crystal's preformance problems specifically, but I would be surprised if macros would take up much compile time. I would have guessed it was more to do with the fiendishly tricky type inference problem that they set for themselves (ie. global inference + subtyping + union types + inheritance + overloaded methods).
- chrisseaton 8y agoThe problem isn’t tricky it just gets very large very quickly.
- alehander42 8y agoMetaprogramming is very fast, this is not a problem: very rarely macros can be the bottleneck