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It also seems like Crystal is compiled, yeah? Would it be safe to say "Crystal is like Ruby but compiled and faster"?
by TranquilMarmot 5y ago
It also seems like Crystal is compiled, yeah? Would it be safe to say "Crystal is like Ruby but compiled and faster"?
- dragonwriter 5y agoCrystal is like Ruby but not dynamic, with macros, without reflection, with arbitrary API changes to the core types that are shared, with value/reference type dichotomy, compiled, and faster. Or, with apologies to the late Douglas Addams, Crystal is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Ruby.
- antifa 5y agoCrystal has compile-time macros/reflection, instead of runtime.
- antifa 5y agoYou can also think of it as "what if golang had a real type system and ruby style syntax".