[debaserab2]

I went through a phase about a year ago where I started all my hobby projects in Crystal. It was a pretty fun exercise but I stopped eventually for the following reasons:

- Ultimately, I ran into some bugs with things in the standard library. There's still a lot of warts and a lot of vague error messages. Hopefully this has improved since I last touched it.

- No windows support. Much of my hobbyist time is spent dabbling with gamedev so it always felt like eventually this would be a dealbreaker.

- I found it hard to grasp some of the type grammar. Mixing the looseness of Ruby syntax with strict typing can sometimes result in weird ergonomics.

That said, I think if/when it matures further I plan on going back to it. Macros were really cool and at the end of the day I just really like working in ruby style languages. The community was also super helpful on Discord.

[koshersalt]

The windows support is a killer, but I think they’ve been working to improve it. 95% of workstations at my office are Windows, so there’s that’s a huge missing market share.

I still say that the initial lack of good windows support by Ruby was a major reason that Python “won”.

[debaserab2]

Yeah, there's a GH issue thread here that I keep an eye on: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

I figure whenever windows support lands will be a good time to give it a shot again.