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by rarrrrr 2623 days ago
Been using Crystal on a project that would've been written in basic Ruby.. productivity is amazing. And it has generics! :D https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/6r3e

How to get Crystal 0.28.0 on macOS right now! :

    brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/ca8f21cd49a936bf154235b365fa23929f9f688d/Formula/crystal.rb
    # or: brew upgrade https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/ca8f21cd49a936bf154235b365fa23929f9f688d/Formula/crystal.rb

    # start the local playground
    crystal play &; open http://127.0.0.1:8080
1 comments

How much does the syntax differ from ruby ?

Do you think I should learn crystal by porting a smallish ruby CLI app to it, or make one from scratch porting a small bash app ?

I was thinking of doing it in `go` or `rust` but thinking of crystal after seeing this article.