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I love Ruby but I'd still cautiously take that bet. At the same time, I don't think it's easy to come up with terms for a fair judgment of who wins. What does C

by d3nj4l 5y ago

I love Ruby but I'd still cautiously take that bet. At the same time, I don't think it's easy to come up with terms for a fair judgment of who wins. What does Crystal being the future of Ruby mean? To me, I think in the specific cases where people who like Ruby want Ruby - mostly webapps with great dev ergonomics and productivity - Crystal will definitely start to gain ground, because both Amber and Lucky are lovely frameworks with a lot of excitement behind them. But will it take over Ruby? Probably not.

gls2ro 5y ago
Adding to d3nj4l's answer, that Ruby also has a great community of active and passionate (yes, in the proper sense passionate of the programming language) developers. I think Elixir has better chances of taking over some of the Ruby pie from this perspective as the Elixir community is a lovely and helpful as the Ruby one. Without such community it is very hard to build momentum and most programming languages remains great options but limited to a small number of projects. I like Crystal and played with it a little bit. I tried to use it in production for a small project where I offloaded some tasks from Rails into Crystal small programs.