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rhencke on June 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crystal 0.25.1 released

How is Ruby an obscure language...?

Their developers are already proficient in Ruby. Crystal is a very, very close cousin of Ruby, syntactically and structurally. This isn't like jumping from Java to Haskell.

MaxBarraclough on June 29, 2018 [–]

I didn't know it was that similar. Neat idea for a language.

The 'Boo' language does the same for Python.

AsyncAwait on June 29, 2018 | [–]

I'd say Nim is for Python what Crystal is for Ruby.

MaxBarraclough on June 30, 2018 | | [–]

On closer inspection I agree - hadn't realised Boo uses the Common Language Infrastructure.

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