[Thaxll]

The current state of Crystal is basically a language for PoC during the week-end, it's far from being ready.

I could go on about what's wrong with the language but:

It's not stable, API change all the time, breaking change all the time, cryptic errors, lot of missing basic features, IDE integration etc ...

[kgraves]

> The current state of Crystal is basically a language for PoC during the week-end, it's far from being ready.

That is changing, earlier this year, the Crystal team are working on getting the language stable for 1.0 [0]

Companies are already now using Crystal in production, most recently Nikola Motor Company [1].

Surely they wouldn't choose crystal if it was a 'half baked' language.

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/2020/03/03/towards-crystal-1.0.html

[1] https://manas.tech/blog/2020/02/11/nikola-motor-company/

[Thaxll]

You will always find someone somewhere picking up a language / framework and thinking it's production ready, from my experience Crystal is not ready and in the example you gave there is absolutly no reason to no use Rust. They needed C binding, and the fact that they started using Crystal years ago when the state was even worse is very worrisom.