[edwardloveall]

I'm a ruby dev so as @bogwog mentioned, Crystal is appealing in it's similarly. I like being in a typed language, and it's _fast_. I'm running this on a very low powered server and it's holding up great.

Also, while I'm really glad it seems to have resonated with so many people, a huge part of this project was the learning I got from it. Getting better at Crystal's type system and the Lucky framework, discovering and using the monads library, learning how to deploy crystal, etc. I hear you on Invidious being difficult to contribute to. I've felt the same way. My difficulties have stemmed, not from crystal, but from the custom libraries that invidious needs. I effectively can't run it locally without Docker. Scribe should work fine locally.

Every language and framework has its tradeoffs. Rails would certainly have been the safer choice, but I also don't expect this to have massive contributions, so I went for the thing I was more interested in. Maybe that was a wrong choice, who knows!

So TL;DR I like crystal and wanted more experience with it. It felt like the right tradeoff for this project, this time.