[connorlay]

Congratulations to the Crystal team! I know many Rubyists who would love to write a language with the runtime benefits of Go, but values and design principles of Ruby. For those looking to get into a young ecosystem, Crystal looks like a great option.

As for other Ruby alternatives, I moved from Ruby to Elixir a few years ago. Immutable data and OTP more than make up for the language's lack of static typing in my mind. There is also Gleam, which I'm watching for now.

One of these days I'll dig into Rust, which fills a similar niche that Crystal would.