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It's odd how Elixir gets plenty of mind-share amongst Rubyists despite only surface similarities yet Crystal has a hard time gaining any traction when it's virt
by cutler 6y ago
It's odd how Elixir gets plenty of mind-share amongst Rubyists despite only surface similarities yet Crystal has a hard time gaining any traction when it's virtually a statically typed Ruby clone.
- jeremy_k 6y ago> a statically typed Ruby clone Could be that. I've used Ruby for 10 years, I'm just used a dynamic language. I also dealt with a typed Javascript monorepo and it was not very fun to deal with when the types weren't working for whatever reason.
- vidarh 6y agoThe thing is, it's not a clone. The similarity is skin deep. Elixir never pretended to be anything it wasn't, but many pushed Crystal hard as a clone, and I think that has produced some resentment.