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> 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal This is a vast exaggeration. And even if I grant it, it's still thousand of loc that you don't have
by unrealhoang 3y ago
> 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal
This is a vast exaggeration.
And even if I grant it, it's still thousand of loc that you don't have to write because of available libraries.
- DennisP 3y agoAlthough they do try to make it easy to use C libraries: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.8/syntax_and_semantics/c_bindings/ https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.8/syntax_and_semantics/...
- antifa 3y agoIMO crystal's value is that I can do things normally associated with golang without the horrors of actually dealing with golang's absence of a good type system and other quirks like error handling.