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by binki89 10y ago
That's true. I think that there is a good number of people out there who have been waiting for exactly this. Hopefully it will be available soon but unfortunately I know of no signs that it is actively being worked on by anyone at the
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Crystal language 0.20.0 released(crystal-lang.org)
8 points by binki89 10y ago|2 comments
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by binki89 10y ago
In terms of performance, I was able to reduce the computational time from 1m57.812s to 0m30.203s (25.6% of the original time) on my 2.8 GHz 16 GB memory machine simply by changing each 'class' to a 'struct'. The differen
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Raybench – Crystal Programming Language(eccentricdevelopments.com)
1 points by binki89 10y ago|1 comments
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by binki89 10y ago
Maybe try Crystal ( https://crystal-lang.org/ ) then. It has many of the benefits of Go and a Ruby-like syntax. It feels even more like a scripting language than Go because of awesome type inference, uses a similar model as G
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by binki89 10y ago
I've enjoyed Crystal ( https://crystal-lang.org/ ) a lot lately. Others have mentioned Nim, which is quite good. Also, D-lang ( http://dlang.org/ ) doesn't get nearly enough love by people. It's
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by binki89 10y ago
Nim ( http://nim-lang.org/ ) is really as close as you're going to find.
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by binki89 10y ago
Good question about pattern matching in Crystal. I found this reply by asterite (the creator of Crystal) to a similar question that is worth reading: https://crystal-lang.org/2014/06/19/crystal-0.1.0-released.
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by binki89 10y ago
Crystal is so great to use.
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by binki89 10y ago
I've previously used Go to develop a command-line tool and it worked quite well. I particularly liked the fact that I could cross-compile it so that I had a single static binary that could target various platforms/OSes without the
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by binki89 10y ago
I'm so excited about the prospect of Crystal language approaching 1.0 stability even if this is a fair way away. It just seems like a language with a lot of potential. If they added multi-threading and Windows support tomorrow, I think
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by binki89 10y ago
My favorite is Tip #36: Integer numbers less than ten should be written in long-form unless they are measurements with associated units or are within a range (e.g. 2-5). For example, you shouldn’t write, "There were 4 cats that scratch
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A Guide to the Academic Writing Style(researchgate.net)
2 points by binki89 10y ago|1 comments
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by binki89 10y ago
Yes, you're right that it is in an early stage of development and doesn't yet support Windows (to be fair, even Rust added full Windows support fairly late in their development cycle to 1.0). Crystal is probably in a slightly earl
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by binki89 10y ago
And Crystal ( http://crystal-lang.org/ ).
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Ruby Rogues discusses the Crystal programming language(devchat.tv)
3 points by binki89 11y ago|0 comments
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Canadians don’t live as far north as you think(whiteboxgeospatial.wordpress.com)
124 points by binki89 11y ago|133 comments