[agumonkey]

I'd be worried of a false sense of similarity. Recently there was an article about crystal, some comments said Ruby was ~one inspiration and not the main goal. You could spend more time fighting your old habits with something that doesn't translate 1 to 1.

[djur]

I spent some time working on a Crystal project and the superficial similarities to Ruby were more confusing than anything. Crystal isn't just "Ruby but fast and statically typed". They are quite different languages.

[agumonkey]

apparently it's not gonna converge so rubyists be warned