I'm looking for something beautiful like Ruby but fast like Go. Do you think Crystal fits this bill?
Also, are there packages/libs/gems for Crystal? What are they called? What do I google for?
One of the major reasons why I dumped Go is that it's just too verbose and makes me write too much boilerplate code. I want to sort a collection and I have to write the same algorithm every single time for every single type. It's just boring and my time could be better spent elsewhere.
I appreciate the feedback HN!
will beautiful like python and faster than Go do? then Nim - http://nim-lang.org will do just fine. Anecdotal benchmarks like this one https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks will show you that Nim comes out at the top (so does Crystal for some, FWIW).