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by RX14 3455 days ago
I think that's a mistake in the article, we will follow semver after 1.0.0, and we definitely don't want a 2.0.0 less than two years after 1.0.0. I'm sure crystal will provide the same stability guarantees as go and rust.
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My main concerns are development time and tooling. Crystal looks great and offers some great features that no other native-compiled languages really offer at this time (which is amazing) but I am the kind of person that needs first-class IDE support to take a look. I think crystal would be the perfect platform for some great software development.

Aside from tooling I need a guarantee that my code, if following all of the best practices, should be compilable from now till the foreseeable future.

The idea is to avoid falling into a Python 2 vs 3 situation, by being very careful in how we break compatibility when moving to the next major.