Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Crystal should get more attention, from desktop application developers in particular. Crystal makes it much easier to maintain large performant code bases.

Basically working with Crystal is much more like working with Python or Ruby, but with performance comparable to C. Unlike Rust or Go where you get the performance, but you don’t get the huge bump in productivity b/c youre working at a lower level of abstraction.



The burden with Ruby is that there is no clear way of shipping an application to the end users without requiring the end user to install the runtime.

Crystal might be the proper solution as the syntax is almost identical (if not is already) and I can finally ship self contained binaries!




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: