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I find myself getting pretty immediately turned off by IMO kind of silly and unverifiable catch phrases languages use as marketing tools. Crystal uses "a progra
by alex_lav 3y ago
I find myself getting pretty immediately turned off by IMO kind of silly and unverifiable catch phrases languages use as marketing tools. Crystal uses "a programming language for humans", much like EmberJS's "for _ambitious_ web developers". As I skim the Crystal page, it's not clear to me what is supposed to stand out as a language that makes it "for humans" any more than any other language? It just seems silly.