I saw that documentation says that Crystal is a general purpose language, but most use-cases I saw are related to web-development. I’m curious if there is any databases, drivers, VMs/unikernels/OSs, etc. written in Crystal.

First thing that comes to my mind is awesome-crystal Note: I believe above link doesn’t show-case all of the things built with Crystal, but should be used as quick reference to get a glimpse of projects/tools/libraries that have enrolled themselves in there. HIH

[image] GitHub - ffwff/lilith: x86-64 os made in crystal x86-64 os made in crystal. Contribute to ffwff/lilith development by creating an account on GitHub. The project is well known according to GitHub Star, but not sure if it is real enough.

I have a TUI-based music player written in Crystal , a SoundFont synthesizer , and a system monitor .

[image] egoholic: but most use-cases I saw are related to web-development Because web is eating the world? I have a small project that’s as webby as they get. A small HTTPS server, with HTML/CSS GUI, using Google for authentication and using REST/JSON to talk to two web services. But the real …

I used crystal at the last place i worked at for a daemon that controls some other equipment and interfaced with hardware on a raspberrypi. works flawlessly and stable for years now.

I’ve written several game jam entries in Crystal. Latest is Restless by kipar Also used it on work for embedded pult gui. Drivers\Databases\OS may be problematic due to GC, but still possible.

I saw that collection of libraries, it has nothing related to my question and contains pretty rubyesque set of libs and wrappers. According to syntetic benchmarks Crystal has performance comparable to Golang, Golang has many databases written in it, but I found nothing for Crystal. I have an idea of…

[image] egoholic: I saw that collection of libraries, it has nothing related to my question and contains pretty rubyesque set of libs and wrappers. I don’t think you’re doing justice to this recommendation. awesome-crystal shows some libraries and apps written in Crystal. It shows at least th…

[image] konovod: Also used it on work for embedded pult gui. Embedded as in microcontroler? or as in single board computer running linux kernel?

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pfischer May 13, 2024, 4:40pm 4

Lavin MQ (message broker) is written in Crystal https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/lavinmq/6705

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