As someone who knows Rust besides several other "powerful" languages, I'd say it sounds more like Crystal now. Many of the benefits of Rust while also having a

As someone who knows Rust besides several other "powerful" languages, I'd say it sounds more like Crystal now. Many of the benefits of Rust while also having a significant higher productivity. It's a tradeoff: less use cases (garbage collection rules out some stuff), smaller ecosystem (albeit one can use ruby code as-is or with little modifications), concurrency-but-no-official-parallelism. The benefits: drastically higher expressiveness, terseness and big stdlib. From idea to production, given good knowledge in either tech: Crystal is way faster to ship things. Only after many months/years into the project and multiple teams involved Rust might catch up.... but this is not the scenario PG speaks of, right? ... or maybe I am just an old Ruby fart and Crystal matches the way I think perfectly.