@jgaskins With the recent controversy happening in ruby over Ruby Central and also DHH, it might be an opportunity for the more followed Crystal enthusiasts to re-introduce Crystal to the ruby world.

More and more people are finding crystals. However, in my personal opinion… [image] When crystal-lang 1.x will be released? Help & Support I really love the Crystal language. It works well on Windows and multithreading is fun too. However, there’s one thing I …

I also agree that Crystal can be used as a vehicle to introduce people to a more fun way of programming, in the same way Ruby acted as during its relative heyday. I think the current controversies will not be a great vehicle for adoption, because in many ways Crystal’s community is more vulnerable …

When crystal-lang 1.x will be released? The strategy of moving Rubyists to Crystal hasn’t been very successful and likely won’t in the future. Just to give a counter-example: I am coming from a Ruby context and still love Crystal. But to a certain degree you are probably right - I at least re…

I came from Ruby a few years ago, and I’ve often felt that many Crystalists think, “Why use Ruby when Crystal is better?” But I believe that’s not a very productive way to think. It tends to create a negative mental loop—trying to convert Rubyists and feeling frustrated when it doesn’t work. Keepin…

I agree with a lot of this. While Crystal is very friendly to the developer, so is Ruby, to an extent. Ruby is arguably friendlier to the developer than Crystal. There are caveats about finding type errors after modifying the code, but I don’t think you’re going to convince Rubyists that this outwei…

I fully agree with everything you said. When developing an app or library, people usually spend a significant amount of time reading code, so Crystal being very easy to understand and digest is a massive bonus, while not compromising on speed. However, the core Crystal dev team, or whoever is / sho…

I wouldn’t jump to a value judgement, but I do think the language could benefit from additional focus on developer relations. A lot of languages and ecosystems I’ve used got popular because people who aren’t the original devs advocated for it. For example: Java was originally heavily promoted by S…

That may very well be, it’s not necessary for a language’s success, but the lack of it definitely doesn’t help. As an example, execution contexts were merged into crystal main a while ago, and they are fantastic. Beyond amazing. The sort of thing that could get everyone who has ever touched multith…

There are two ways of thinking that I often compare. One is goal-focused thinking, where you imagine a better state, see what’s missing, and work step by step to make it real. The other is reality-based thinking, where you look at the current situation, think about what will happen if nothing chang…

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