[eropple]

You don't? The joke of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force needs to be updated with the Crystal one, near as I can tell. Nearly every thread where Ruby's discussed has the Crystal Guy (specific identity of any given Crystal Guy up for debate) parachuting in.

Crystal is not the next language for this Ruby developer. Ruby remains it, along with JavaScript when Node makes sense. It often feels like the folks evangelizing Crystal really don't get why people use Ruby--if I need static typing I'm going to go use Kotlin or Rust or C++; looking like Ruby and not having any of the things that make Ruby valuable to me (namely, the features implied by dynamic typing, and to forestall the usual, no, Crystal macros don't replace it) is a demerit, not a positive.

[hnzix]

> if I need static typing

And that's when the Static Typing Is The One True Way person parachutes in. :)

[carlmr]

It is, but I won't try to sell it to Ruby devs. :P