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Discussion on: We created the Crystal language, ask us anything!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Did the name of the language come from "gee, what's a gemstone that starts with the letter C?"

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Martin Verzilli

It was more "gee, what's a gemstone that would make for a good file extension?" cr sounded kind of nice and... we don't like to bike shed on this sorts of things too much :P, so it ended up being Crystal.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Haha nice! Totally a fan of good file extensions.