A small correction here : Crystal is not essentially a compiled version of Ruby. It has of course the same syntax, but it has its own path, its own features, and the retro-compatibility with Ruby is not a goal.
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agreed, didn't mean to imply the tooling or libraries are the same, but that if you wanted the benefits of a compiled language in a Ruby syntactical wrapper, Crystal fills that role (and Nim for Python)
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A small correction here : Crystal is not essentially a compiled version of Ruby. It has of course the same syntax, but it has its own path, its own features, and the retro-compatibility with Ruby is not a goal.
agreed, didn't mean to imply the tooling or libraries are the same, but that if you wanted the benefits of a compiled language in a Ruby syntactical wrapper, Crystal fills that role (and Nim for Python)