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"- Crystal: ?; fast?; have not used" Ruby is an extremely powerful language, with the only drawback of being truly slow. Crystal solves this problem with flyin
by squarefoot 7y ago
"- Crystal: ?; fast?; have not used"
Ruby is an extremely powerful language, with the only drawback of being truly slow. Crystal solves this problem with flying colors by offering almost full Ruby compatibility along with very efficient native code generation.
Unfortunately it's still young and lacks user base as well as ports to other architectures.
- dymk 7y agoLacking the Ruby ecosystem means it lacks like, 90% of the reason you’d choose a language.
- petre 7y agoYup, quite fast. On par with Go. Compiling Crystal is also fast and the language is beautiful.
- bb1234 7y agoAccording to the benchmarks at https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks, Crystal is about twice as fast as Go.
- omaranto 7y agoIn a discussion involving C, C++, Rust and Nim, "on par with Go" is probably not considered fast. Also, it would seem Crystal is closer to those languages I mentioned than to Go in speed.
- jashmatthews 7y ago>almost full Ruby compatibility Crystal is very different from Ruby. Hello world will copy paste but there are major differences after that.