Thinking ahead to when the use of Crystal explodes, there needs to be an agreed upon name to call its users (think swag, article references, etc). Can’t have Crystal conferences, meetups, etc without a name people in the community use to refer to themselves as. :blush: So if you use Ruby you’re a …

This thread is facet-nating! I had shardster come to mind. Lattice consider all options carefully.

Crystalines? Crystalians? Crystalicans?

I think Crystalizer is totally kool. Therefore Crystal programmers would be Crystalizers. I can also see future IT projects as being crytalized due to using Crystal in order to solve problems in a timely manner. And aren’t we always trying to “crystalize” things in terms of accomplishing tasks & ge…

I find crystalers and crystalizers to be boring and awkward, respectively. These are the ones I like: crystaliers cryshills jewelers followers of cryst crystics (like mystics) (possibly spelled crystiks?) …with crystiks and crystaliers being my favorites.

I think the offical term is lapidarist might be too confusing for the gophers though Maybe Ballers ?

Crystal followers are Crystians :laughing:

Peter or Anna or Alex. We need no fancy name. We are just normal people who enjoy a language that is simple to write and understand yet powerful and fast.

I think Crystalians rolls of the tongue quite well…

What are Crystal programmers called?

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