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Why would rubyists need elegance in a different language for perf? Do what everyone else does, and write a C extension.
by vinceguidry 6y ago
Why would rubyists need elegance in a different language for perf? Do what everyone else does, and write a C extension.
- Cort3z 6y agoThe point is that they / we don't want to write c.
- vinceguidry 6y agoSpeaking personally, I don't want to write in anything else but Ruby. If I have to code in something else, well, anything's fine. I don't want "elegance" in that language. I don't need other languages to try to be Ruby. I already have Ruby. I just want to get it done so I can build on that work... in Ruby. I just don't understand why other people seem to think Ruby isn't enough.
- straight-shoota 6y agoI like Ruby, too. But Crystal is like Ruby, and better in many regards. Performance is a huge issue with any computational intensive tasks. Crystal's static typing also avoids many simple errors you would only catch in Ruby with an extensive spec suite for many edge cases.
- vinceguidry 6y agoThis is a Crystal discussion, and I hate it when Crystal people show up in Ruby discussions and talk crap about Ruby so I won't argue against you, other than to say that Crystal is only like Ruby in that it's syntax is superficially similar.