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I love Crystal, and have loved it for several years. It was my go-to for Advent of Code or small fun projects for a while. Eventually, I got so tired of consta
by ubertaco 3y ago
I love Crystal, and have loved it for several years. It was my go-to for Advent of Code or small fun projects for a while.
Eventually, I got so tired of constantly jumping between browser docs and my editor because of the lack of a working and useful language server (yes, I know about Scry and Crystalline, but neither of them actually do autocomplete outside of maybe 2% of cases), and I got so used to an amazing tooling experience when writing F# (my other favorite language) that I just kinda dropped off using Crystal.
Things I would've written in Crystal, I wrote in F#. If I _really_ needed a static binary, I picked up Rust (though I love Crystal's syntax _so much more_ than Rust's).
If Crystal gets a good language server, heck yeah I'll roll with it. In the meantime, it just sorta feels like a missed opportunity.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI'm afraid to try F#, I might like it too much from what I see. If only F# could compile to a single EXE.
- pjmlp 3y agoNative AOT is getting there.
- metaltyphoon 3y agoIt can do that already.
- laurentlb 3y agoI compile my F# application with --standalone and share a single exe file to my users. It still requires .NET to be executed (but note it works on many platforms thanks to Mono).
- JohnFen 3y ago> It still requires .NET to be executed Which means it's not really standalone.
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