[save_ferris]

I would love to see this happen, but I don't think it's realistic anytime soon.

Crystal just doesn't have the community that ruby has, and as teams reconsider certain aspects of their applications, languages like Elixir and Go make way more sense.

Creating a compiled language with similar syntax to Ruby is great, but there's so much more involved than just that if you're talking about building a serious, commercial product. And unfortunately, I just don't see Crystal getting that kind of traction in the short term.

[cutler]

Kotlin is a good transition language from Ruby. Concise with a nice balance between FP and OOP and all the scaling benefits of the JVM.

[vasergen]

What about Elixir, seems to be a good option as well

[cutler]

Not if you want to retain the OO features of Ruby. Beyond the surface syntax similarities Elixir is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared with Ruby.