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Crystal has a similar syntax. Does anyone else hate macros?
by ketamine__ 6y ago
Crystal has a similar syntax. Does anyone else hate macros?
- vinceguidry 6y agoThis argument has always confused me. Syntax is not, and never was, the point or beauty of Ruby. The semantics, deriving from the pure object model, are. Crystal's object model is just light years away from Ruby's. I suppose if one has never really achieved much proficiency in Ruby then they can be equated. Personally, I'd sooner code in Go than in Crystal. The tooling is way better. Mruby however would be my first choice for "Ruby but with compilation." http://mruby.org/ http://mruby.org/ If that won't work, then I'm looking to Go next.
- vidarh 6y agoSyntax very much matters to the Ruby community. Or we'd all just have used Smalltalk, which has near the same object model. A pretty syntax on top of a clean object model is a key selling point of Ruby. I agree with you about Crystal though. No interest in it.