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Compiled and interpreted languages: Two ways of saying tomato | Jan 2023

Crystal lang has both compiler and interpreter.

Ask HN: New Programming Language? | Jan 2022

I believe this is what Crystal [0] is trying to achieve. Though I’ve hardly used Ruby or Crystal, so can’t say how well it’s fairing on that goal.

[0] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Crystal 1.0 – What to expect | Mar 2021

>I think any new programming language should have a "why?" section on their page.

It's right here:

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

The Odin Programming Language | Jan 2020

There is one more programming language that "loves C's efficiency for running code." Not tried it myself, but anyone interested can have a look at: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Fully working Posix-like x86-64 OS in Crystal | Oct 2019

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, it's blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimizations built into the LLVM toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Crystal's New Installation Page Is Just Beautiful | Oct 2019

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Crystal 0.27.1 released | Feb 2019

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Crystal on Windows: A Deep Dive on Exception Handling | Aug 2018

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018 | Jun 2018

I've been keeping my eye on Crystal for a while now thinking about making the plunge and writing something production ready in it.

But I'm a bit vary as for the casual observer the Crystal project github (https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal) seems brim with unsolved issues (over 500 issues!) and stale PR-s (over 105!). I'm not sure if this is a sign of poor project managment, development stall or poor community engagement but still it leaves a bad first impression. Contrast this to elixir project page (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir).

Maybe someone who is actively involved in the development of Crystal could shine a light?

Why Crystal Is My Next Language | Jun 2018

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Which is the fastest web framework? | Jan 2018

What is crystal? And where are Java & C++? Also, who the hell writes web frameworks in Objective-C?

Also... does anyone notice that this test shows that the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest.

edit: re: "What is crystal?"

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ... I will say, I'm intrigued. I do love ruby, but unfortunately also hate dynamic typing. Crystal seems interesting.

Reasons for Ruby-Ists to Use Crystal | Jan 2018

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Overview of the Crystal language | Dec 2017

Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

New Features in Ruby 2.4 | Jul 2016

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I'm on a similar boat, and am eagerly awaiting production-ready releases (and wider adoption) of both Crystal[1] and Julia[2] languages. Crystal for the Ruby-ish syntax, and Julia because it seems to be shaping up into a language I like even more than Ruby.

[1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal [2]

Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality? | May 2016

crystal-lang's standard library is a good example. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Show HN: Rhine – A typed Elixir-inspired language on LLVM | Mar 2016

Nice project.

As was already mentioned, the main benefit of Elixir seems to come from BEAM, (Erlang VM) and its associated cockroach-like properties. There's also Crystal (https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal), if what you want is a Ruby-inspired language with static typing and compilation to native code.