How/Why did you find Crystal?

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I believe I discovered Crystal back in the day (I think around 2014) when it was implemented in Ruby via a newsletter that sent over keyword related new repositories from GitHub.

I was excited to see a familiar syntax getting compiled to binaries. Having type inference, getting errors when passing wrong types, it was great, even when rough in many areas.

Then there was RubyConf Argentina a few months later, at which Ary did a lighting talk presenting Crystal.

Since then I was stalking the project and the team, building small tools on my side for different things that over the years I’ve been extracting of projects and then open-sourcing.

Still here, still strong language.

Already more than 10 years! Time flies when you’re having fun! :blush:

Thank you for the small trip into memory lane!

Cheers! :tada:

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Hello everyone,

Actualy i knew Crystal for long times im not sure but i guess 5-6 years ago. Maybe you know @sdogruyol developing and maintaining Kemal framework. Nowadays i trying Kemal its mine first reason. I working as a linux system administartor & automation engineer now in a company at Turkiye i thinking about of crystal for developing custom binaries.

Have a nice weekend :waving_hand:

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