[speg]

I’ve been playing with Crystal a lot (every night) for the last few months.

It’s really fun language, and I don’t have even have any Ruby background!

The main pain points from where I’m sitting are things like debugging and incremental compiling. You can throw lack of tooling in there too I suppose.

The dev team knows and is working on these, but they are a small community based team so don’t expect they same resources as in Go or Swift.

FWIW I’ve been having good experiences with Sublime.

[Normille]

As per my original post, while the lack of tooling is my biggest pain point around the language ecosystem, inside the language itself, my main gripe is with the error messages. I find them quite impenetrable a lot of the time. Which is not ideal when confronting a new language.

Crystal could take a leaf out of V or Rust's book here. Whatever you think of the languages themselves, the error messages are top notch. Errors that say "Ah. I see what you were trying to do here. Maybe you should try this instead?" are so much more helpful than "Why on earth did you do that?!"

[rishav_sharan]

I am also having a better experience with sublime than with vs code.