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Unique? There are a hell of a lot of computer languages out there. The only unique ones are those that are so bad that no-one ever did that again. The sellin

Unique? There are a hell of a lot of computer languages out there. The only unique ones are those that are so bad that no-one ever did that again. The selling point for Crystal is that it has a clean syntax that's easy for Ruby or Python developers to pick up (almost the same as Ruby), but compiles to standalone binaries that run really, really fast. I mostly work in Python because the libraries are a lot more mature, but I use Crystal when I need to produce a standalone binary.

dom96 7y ago
Have you given Nim a try, as a Python developer it seems like it would be right up your alley.
Shorel 7y ago
> but compiles to standalone binaries that run really, really fast. In a world with Go, Rust, D, C++ and C, this part requires comparison with these other languages. Faster than Ruby and faster than Python doesn't cut it.