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 …

Just Jewelers who are shaping their Crystals :slight_smile:

I love that a language communities have some concise words for their members. I’ve always thought “Gophers” was a pretty fun one. A couple more I thought about for Crystal: Crystalier (makes me think of “cavalier” or “musketeer” :joy:) Crystalizer

Crystalites is what came to my mind, but I like Crystaliers (with a strong French accent) a lot too :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Also worth thinking about: code that follows idiomatic Crystal principles (viz. Pythonic)

…you will also notice the exquisite Crystaline nature of the code in the master repo, and should follow its idiomatic Crystaline style… :grin:

We are Crystallites - :gem: an individual perfect crystal or region of regular crystalline structure …

I’ve seen and used “Crystaler” in the past, but I wouldn’t mind moving to another one

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

Crystalines? Crystalians? Crystalicans?

What are Crystal programmers called?

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drhuffman12 December 4, 2021, 6:18am 4

+1 re: Is there an official name?

Some more ideas: Crystalites, Crystalists, Chrysalis

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