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I think for this to have a realistic chance, you have to have some effort on the rails side to reduce the meta-programming. I doubt that’s going to happen. It
by burlesona 6y ago
I think for this to have a realistic chance, you have to have some effort on the rails side to reduce the meta-programming. I doubt that’s going to happen.
It is certainly possible to port Ruby applications to Crystal without a total rewrite, but the addition of static types in and of itself means you may be surprised at how much fiddling is required to get the compiler to approve your code.
- klelatti 6y agoHaving done some of this agree 100% with the "surprised at how much fiddling is required". I think in practice that Crystal will have to carve out its own niche distinct from Ruby - and I'm not sure whether the Ruby like syntax is much of an advantage against competing languages.
- chillfox 6y agoIt doesn't have to beat other languages, it just has to enable new domains for people who only like ruby like languages to be successful.