I'm a Rubyist by profession and I've tried Crystal multiple times but never really felt like I was enjoying it. I can't really put my finger on why, but perhaps

I'm a Rubyist by profession and I've tried Crystal multiple times but never really felt like I was enjoying it. I can't really put my finger on why, but perhaps it falls into the "uncanny valley" where it looks a lot like Ruby but is slightly different in peculiar ways. I vaguely recall being confused about including other files and module definitions last time, like you could put the requires in really weird places. It has been a while, though. Oddly, I found Elixir much more enjoyable, and extremely quick to learn. Whereas Crystal feels like an attempt to build a "compiled Ruby", Elixir feels more like it took the ideas behind what Ruby is and applied it to a wildly different design, and as a result actually feels like how Ruby felt when I first learnt it. But I do give Crystal a go every once in a while just to see if I finally get the hang of it.