It doesn't attempt to be different from Ruby at least in its looks and feel. Crystal strives to be as similar to Ruby as possible. The creator stated some reaso

It doesn't attempt to be different from Ruby at least in its looks and feel. Crystal strives to be as similar to Ruby as possible. The creator stated some reasons why they created Crystal on the github repo. https://github.com/manastech/crystal#why https://github.com/manastech/crystal#why