All computer programming languages have trade-offs they said
You can't have the simplicity & slickness of Ruby with speed of C they said
They was wrong.
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William Hughes
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Luke Brooks
My man.
Wyatt Wright
is this going to become wildy adopted?
Jonathan Murphy
>They was wrong.
Technically, they can't, depending on what you mean by speed. But I was fine with the reasonable-well-compiled-languages-with-GC
ballpark.
I hope so, but at the moment it seems development is somewhat stuck. In any way, I don't expect them to become usable in less than 5 years. Which is also ok, as long as they don't experiment in the "stable" release, as dlang did.
Benjamin Robinson
Coming from a non-ruby background, the lack of actually useful documentation made it painful to learn crystal sometimes. That said, it's a damn comfy language with great potential. The only thing I don't like is that all applications are linked statically and the programs are thus self contained, making patching with a distros package manager unreliable (or maybe I just got that one wrong). By the way, does anybody have time to review my incomplete cli bug tracker written in crystal?
Andrew Parker
>Coming from a non-ruby background, the lack of actually useful documentation made it painful to learn crystal sometimes.
This. Moreso the fact that the language is documented in another place than the standard library.
>The only thing I don't like is that all applications are linked statically and the programs are thus self contained, making patching with a distros package manager unreliable (or maybe I just got that one wrong).
How is it unreliable to just replace the entire blob? Also, let's not praise bistro packaging too much...
>By the way, does anybody have time to review my incomplete cli bug tracker written in crystal?
Unlikely. Best go to the specific subreddit, and I mean this in a non-harmful way.
Kevin Watson
>Ruby syntax
Fucking gross. Of all the syntaxes available, why that awful mess?
Brandon Diaz
Because words are best, fuck the rest.
That said, block syntax is gross and two spaced indentation ruined quite a lot of languages for me.
Elijah Perez
Ruby's not python, no identation is forced upon you.
Jose Rivera
Because the blob is huge. Also, the language brings it's own package manager so in theory you could built the loaded packages as libs that can be easily replaced, but they're built into the blob as well
Joseph Brown
>huge
>about 10mb
Unfortunately 2 spaces is convention in the ruby world.
Jaxson Baker
When is it coming to winblows?
Austin Ward
is the page loading for you Jow Forumsents?
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Julian Perez
There's some JS running amok.
Jonathan Clark
How Crystal is different from D, Nim or Go? All these languages try to unsit C++, yet fail miserably because of GC.
If you really care about performance and safety, you should use Rust.
Eli Anderson
Site itself is loading, but the content gets stuck
Christopher Hall
>conventions
if it's your work you can make up your own
Nobody cares nerd
Jason Moore
>How Crystal is different from D, Nim or Go?
It's called "rapid application development", user. Crystal is to Ruby what Nim is to Python. Go is for brainlets and D is a half-assed attempt to replace C++ with minimally better results.
>All these languages try to unsit C++
Actually it's only D, and it could have succeeded if it didn't fuck around for almost two decades.
Chase Ramirez
looks like a java version with dynamic types like in ruby and mixed with c++ syntax.
what a monstrosity
Josiah James
>Ruby syntax
Why
Anthony Flores
>looks like a java version with dynamic types like in ruby and mixed with c++ syntax.
It's actually a Java version with static types and Ruby only syntax. And better metaprogramming.
Aiden Ramirez
>Calling c like GO for brainlets while trying to shill ruby like syntax as a good thing
just leave
Austin Wood
>two spaced indentation ruined
what?
2 is amazing.
I can permit 4
anything more is full retard
also IF/ENDIF is the god tier block style
followed by python
with braces at the very bottom of the shitlist
Matthew Powell
Consider suicide
Chase Ross
>c-like go
>>/plebbit/
>2 is amazing
At some point your eyes disagree. And I say that as someone who can cheat in some guess game by reading stuff that is printed to small for normal humans, unlike my superhuman bionic eyes.
Grayson Perry
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John Price
>They was
>was
Why do you suck in English?
Leo Evans
smooth transition from ruby projects/libraries
Til this day when crystal has been diverting more and more from ruby, it's still pretty much effortless to rewrite something from ruby to crystal.
Notable example of code reuse is the crystal stdlib itself.
Eli Ramirez
I like the blackness in this logo resembling C.
I wish the actual C logo had more black on it.
Matthew Cruz
>*spin behind you*
heh, nothin personnel
Grayson Cruz
>garbage collected
For fuck sake...
Aiden King
more important
>conservative collector
Jaxson Collins
99% of people complaining about garbage collection know nothing about it and use ad hoc versions anyway.
Liam Jenkins
You can always malloc() yourself like a caveman gramps