> Crystal is irrelevant as a comparison to Ruby, because there is no Rails. I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, Crystal is already being used by ex-Rubyists and th

> Crystal is irrelevant as a comparison to Ruby, because there is no Rails. I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, Crystal is already being used by ex-Rubyists and the ecosystem of crystal libraries are being built by them as well. After 1.0 you would see more of this happening. Lucky [0][1] by Thoughtbot is the closest to Rails in the Crystal world. > The biggest downside of Ruby compared to other languages (besides speed, but like I said, that doesn't matter here), is lack of static typing. That may or may not be a problem depending on your usecase. Then I shouldn't see any complaints about speed on Ruby if it doesn't matter, Crystal solves all of this built in, with the trade off of slower build times, but then again Rust also has slower build times as well. But to each their own. [0] https://luckyframework.org/ https://luckyframework.org/ [1] https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky