[happywolf]

What advantages Crystal has compared to other more modern languages that aim to compete with C? For example D and Rust.

[pjmlp]

It is Ruby done right if community would have bothered with performance.

[flukus]

I don't think it's really trying to compete with C, it's a much higher level language, just one that happens to be fast as well.

[erelde]

Its similarity with Ruby? It doesn't _feel_ like I would have to learn completely new paradigms

[wmoxam]

It's somewhat similar, but in Crystal you need to be explicit with types, and you'll likely miss 'send'.

Also Crystal has macros