RFC: New Motto For Crystal

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Now I found what initially caught my focus 100% (from crystal/README.md at master · crystal-lang/crystal · GitHub):

  • We love Ruby’s efficiency for writing code.
  • We love C’s efficiency for running code.
  • We want the best of both worlds.
  • We want the compiler to understand what we mean without having to specify types everywhere.
  • We want full OOP.
  • Oh, and we don’t want to write C code to make the code run faster.

So it’s practically all there, just need to squeeze it in two to three words. :laughing:

I personally would not drop the speed topic, since people not knowing Crystal don’t know that it’s compiled (and fast) to start with.

Some more suggestions:

  • “Outright elegance & efficiency”
  • “Elegant, concise & efficient”
  • “Outright perfection” (which is quite bold, taking into account the ~1700 open issues)
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Elegance and efficiency are probably good things to focus on as they convey at least some information about the language.

Ideally I would also like to incorporate being intuitive and friendly for beginners, while also enabling rapid prototyping one way or another :thinking:

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Crystal: Look into the future, build with speed, safety and efficiency.

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I like that safety is in a large portion of the proposals. At this point in time, and echoing wolfgang371 and ysbaddaden, performance is less of a point.

As a little joke, I’ll go with: “Painless installs with an unbeaurocratically safe language”.

But in reality, I’m thinking of iterating one already mentioned:¹

Code Elegant. Run Fast. Stay Safe.

I’m not sure if the English is sound though.

¹ Smart programming, as originally mentioned, is what Haskellers do. That’s not necessarily “elegant” to my eyes.

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“Stay safe” has a bit of condom (or antivirus) ad-like ring to it :sweat_smile:

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  • See-through syntax, solid performance.
  • The clear choice for your next project.
  • Where elegance meets performance.
  • Crystallize your ideas into performant code.
  • Code that shines under pressure.
  • Elegance that scales.