points by procaryote 3 days ago | 0 comments
What if you want a single language that's pretty fast while simple and maintainable?
[–] alexfortin 3 days ago
[–] ksec 3 days ago
Crystal is slow to compile. There is a variant of Crystal that compiles a lot faster. But I forgot its name. Need to dig it up when I get back home.
[–] alexfortin 3 days ago
I agree, the compiler is slow but I don't mind much, or better, the fact that I find building maintainable programs much easier outweights that downside massively in my case.
[–] jimbob45 3 days ago
Then you pick C# which is both faster and simpler than Go.
[–] girvo 3 days ago
Simpler it definitely is not. Better, yes I would accept that. C# is complex though.
[–] metaltyphoon 3 days ago
I like C# but simpler? I don’t believe so.
[–] mfru 3 days ago
C# may be easier but it is not simpler than Go
[–] dankobgd 3 days ago
didn't that language have like 150 keywords 10 years ago, it probably has 500 keywords now
It's really great fun to build stuff in Crystal, I don't have anything prod-grade yet to say how it scores there but the community seems to be happy about that too.