Crystal was fun to learn for Advent of Code, especially as someone who has zero Ruby experience. Felt weird, but in a good way, and ticked off a lot of the boxe

Crystal was fun to learn for Advent of Code, especially as someone who has zero Ruby experience. Felt weird, but in a good way, and ticked off a lot of the boxes I like in languages (decent type inference, static types, good standard library, reasonable toolset, etc.)