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I have been infatuated with Crystal since I first saw the 1.0 release posted here in the spring. Your questions point out the obvious shortcomings of Crystal c
by speg 5y ago
I have been infatuated with Crystal since I first saw the 1.0 release posted here in the spring.
Your questions point out the obvious shortcomings of Crystal currently. While it is easy to find libraries, they are few and their support is questionable. Not to do anything with the language itself or the ability of community, just the nature of a new and small ecosystem.
The team is small but I take solace in the fact that they have been at this for a very long time now (2011).
Once nicety that helps the ecosystem is the easy of interoperability with C-libraries. Many shards are simple wrappers around an already established C library.
- akudha 5y agoI just started learning Elixir, Crystal is another language that I want to try at some point. From the first looks of it, it is not going to be that hard to learn (like Haskell or Rust). Lucky framework also seems interesting. I don't think I'd need some niche library for my personal projects at least, but it would be nice to know what one is getting into. I haven't looked at other languages seriously - at the moment Elixir and Crystal seem to be the most interesting to me