Using for production project, I would like to see incremental compilation because build time is basically what’s slow the most my pace (note: it’s a web project).
Also I would like to see a bit of investment in PR, because the world we live in is ruled by marketing and without any we are condemned to stay in the shadows
I think PR is important, one thing we could do is make some more web boilerplates (either a clonable repo or working generator commands). Maybe I’ll make one this year.
Could it be just “optional” as it is now? Maybe you can add the compiler option “–enforce-method-types” to enforce types in method signatures when someone really want it for some project.
Sorry, that was my wish for a language that’s easier to implement but is less powerful than Crystal. I drop my newyear wishes. Now I just want more stabilization, features, etc.
I would honestly appreciate faster compile times or any other means to check the correctness of the code without recompiling. Honestly I would not even mind generating Ruby code if it’s fast.
I am not a compiler designer nor do I really understand the intricacies of this but would optional strict typing help the compiler with compile times?
I think this would be useful at least for libraries / dependencies. You dont have to be specific in your application code but writing re-usable libraries that will always have to be re-compiled would help tremendously with the development experience.
This topic has been discussed several times in the past. In short, there’s no way to make y y faster without putting considerable effort and time into, non of which we have. In long, you can search old forum, reddit and github issues about this.
Optional typing is not an option (the compiler doesn’t work like that).
Thanks both @ComputerMage@asterite.
One more question. What do you think in Crystal requires a massive re-design and has to be done despite the lack of resources.
Say you would have a team of another 5 of you.
Nothing. For me the language is fine as is. Yes, you need to compile everything from scratch each time, but it’s relatively fast, at least compared to other tools.
Like, when I need to compile an Elixir app, or Haskell, or even running ruby specs in a Rails app, it takes sooo much time… sometimes more than compiling a big crystal app, or the compiler. I even heard Rust, which is much more suitable for incremental compilation, takes quite a lot of time to compile.
Compile times can be improved, but they are not necessary for 1.0, maybe not even afterwards.