Crystal for Rubyists

I fucking love Crystal and Ruby. Never has a language literally made me happy like those two. &quot;<i>Amazement</i> wow is this how easy I can achieve this. This is incredible!!!&quot;.<p>Conversely Perl and C++ made me miserable, as I tried and tried and gave up learning them. I prefer Excel formulae to working with them.

It&#x27;s quite easy for me to churn out some data munging scripts using Ruby but I was running into performance issues on large csv files. Crystal is like having super powers for csv parsing if you already have Ruby skills. I really think it&#x27;s the sweet spot for the language.

This is great Serdar.<p>As an alternative to Chapter 2 I’ll also share <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;compumike&#x2F;crystal-docker-quickstart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;compumike&#x2F;crystal-docker-quickstart</a> my project template which lets you get a Crystal (currently 1.6.2) dev environment running with just Docker. Good for kicking the tires, which is what I think your audience is probably wanting to do! And then eventually can install a binary package as you suggest.

Crystal is a lovely language. The language community is small though, and learning resources are also small. The story for Crystal is the same story for many programming languages: grow the interest of users, and find generous funding.<p>My impression is that not many Ruby programmers have switched to Crystal. The slow(ish) Crystal compilation will not please Ruby users. And Crystal for Windows is still in beta.<p>Despite these factors, Crystal is a pleasure to use - fast, readable, and a well-featured standard libary.

&gt; What’s awesome about Ruby?<p>&gt; Dynamically typed<p>As someone who has experienced the joy and at least some feeling of safety from moving to typescript from javascript, I would seriously question that dynamic typing is awesome.

I&#x27;ve been using Crystal for some 6 years now and it&#x27;s still my favorite language. It definitely has issues; it&#x27;s not perfect, but it really hits a good balance between being a fast language with nice features and encouraging the &quot;joy of programming&quot; that Matz is all about. I would love to see it gain popularity eventually.

Any way related to the talk given at RubyConf Mini?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rubyconfmini.com&#x2F;program#Crystal-for-Rubyists" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rubyconfmini.com&#x2F;program#Crystal-for-Rubyists</a>

With advent of code coming up I&#x27;m torn between Kotlin and maybe Crystal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;</a>

Past discussions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=Crystal%20for%20Rubyists&amp;type=story&amp;dateRange=all&amp;sort=byDate&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix&amp;page=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=Crystal%20for%20Rubyists&amp;type=...</a>

There&#x27;s also a Chinese version at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cn.crystalforrubyists.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cn.crystalforrubyists.com</a> It&#x27;s not updated for a while though happy to have your PRs :)

Hey Everyone. I&#x27;m looking russian speaking Crystal&#x2F;Ruby developers for really interesting project with competitive salary. For details, please, contact me via e-mail - veronika.p@eurekaos.com

How is wasm support going? I know they have to &quot;throw away&quot; many of their inventions in lieu of single threads and untouchable stacks, but the core of type inference still maps well to wasm (?)

&gt; Crystalian [being the name for Crystal users&#x2F;evangelists]<p>Man, there have to be better alternatives than this.<p>Did you try “crystacean?” Chuckles in .rs.