[unrealhoang]

> 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal

This is a vast exaggeration. And even if I grant it, it's still thousand of loc that you don't have to write because of available libraries.

[antifa]

IMO crystal's value is that I can do things normally associated with golang without the horrors of actually dealing with golang's absence of a good type system and other quirks like error handling.

[DennisP]

Although they do try to make it easy to use C libraries:

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.8/syntax_and_semantics/...