[pelasaco]

Exactly.. I was a Crystal enthusiast, but because of their slow development pace and small community, half-baked documentation (all understandable, no critics here) and the raise of Go (great documentation, fast pace development, huge community), was hard to keep focus on that. Go became my option to ruby, and I'm doing fine with that.

[actionfromafar]

I can't suffer Go. C, Rust, C++, Ruby Python, Java, C#, VB.Net are all fine, F# looks cool too but I never used it.

I started to use Crystal in a small commercial project, as a web backend, and it was very fun and promising.

But the project got cancelled for completely unrelated reasons.

I long for an excuse to use Crystal again. Hard typing combined with Ruby carefree style and EXEs without runtime... really cool stuff.

I think Crystal will crack the Win32 nut eventually.

[rookderby]

I think windows is the main thing holding crystal back. I make little games for jams and I'm always trying out new languages. I submitted a bug related to running processes on windows last november, it was just recently closed as completed. Although I spend almost all of my at-home time on linux, I know that I have to provided windows executables for jams. I plan to come back to crystal when I can write once and can compile the same code everywhere.