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Wonder why Crystal was not used.

• freedomben 3y ago
  Crystal is a super cool and underrated language. But why do you mention it here? Does kagi use crystal in other places?
  • mathverse 3y ago
    They use it for search afaik.
    • SushiHippie 3y ago
      Yep[0] 70k lines of crystal code for kagi search[1] [0] https://help.kagi.com/orion/company/hiring-kagi.html#full-time-positions https://help.kagi.com/orion/company/hiring-kagi.html#full-ti... [1] CrystalConf talk from a Kagi Tech Leas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7t9xPajjTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7t9xPajjTM
      • darnthenuggets 3y ago
        I can’t decide if I hate architecture-by-drawio or not.
  • YellowSuB 3y ago
    Yes it is made with Crystal
    • synergy20 3y ago
      I read somewhere that typically crystal is adopted by ruby developers not sure if there is something similar in Python
      • tokai 3y ago
        Nim maybe?
        • 7thaccount 3y ago
          Nim is probably closest, but it's probably more influenced by pascal, modula-2, Oberon... something like that iirc
          • synergy20 3y ago
            it is, it's still fairly complex. wish there is something simpler but statically-compiled with python syntax, something like crystal but for python developers.
            • fabianhjr 3y ago
              Scala 3 with Braceless Syntax (scala-native for x86) https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-features/indentation.html https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...
              • synergy20 3y ago
                kotlin seems to be the Java trend now,anyway, don't know much about java
                • 7thaccount 3y ago
                  Not sure if it helps, but as someone who is a big fan of scripting languages like Python and someone who loves playing with all kinds of programming languages...I found Scala, Clojure, and Kotlin to be a much more frustrating experience than Python in a lot of ways. I wouldn't say there is enough in common.
  • promiseofbeans 3y ago
    Based on their job postings, they use it for most of their back-end: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html#full-time-positions https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html#full-tim...