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by zareith 21 days ago
Curious if there are folks (perhaps from ruby community) using crystal for medium/large projects. How has your experience been?

I recently tried it out in a hobby project and was pleasantly surprised at how smooth the overall DX was, and how little memory it consumed.

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Is there such thing as rails for crystal?
Marten and Lucky come close.

My use cases are fairly minimal though, and the adjacent ecosystem is not as well developed. You likely won't be able to get an out of the box integrated gems for shopping cart, blogging platform, newsletter, analytics etc. as you might for rails. If you are building something new from basic blocks, a lot of the foundational blocks seem to be good state. But again, my experience is very limited.