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by erickj 3081 days ago
What is crystal? And where are Java & C++? Also, who the hell writes web frameworks in Objective-C?

Also... does anyone notice that this test shows that the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest.

edit: re: "What is crystal?"

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ... I will say, I'm intrigued. I do love ruby, but unfortunately also hate dynamic typing. Crystal seems interesting.

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Crystal is a relatively newer language aimed to combine Ruby's syntax with the speed of C per it's project page [1].

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/

> Also... does anyone notice that this test shows that the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest.

That does seem suspicious. On the other hand, that's precisely the party that would have the most incentive to publicize the results of the tests...

I'm looking at the contributors in crystal-lang/crystal and I don't see "tbrand" there. That said, the repositories they do create seem predominantly crystal related, so they're certainly a user of it.
not to mention CGI