I miss the point of this thread.
I’m not sure people are leaving Crystal. I think the interest in Ruby is declining since years. By leverage, it also reduces the people who can naturally turn to Crystal.
Because other share their wish list for Crystal :) I share too the mine.
I prefer that the Crystal team take their time to experiment and carefully design the technology. I am thinking of Erlang VM which is amazing. It took time too.
I don’t hope Crystal to become a trending language because I found myself lost when it was the case for Ruby.
Okay, wish-list time:
1/ I think Windows is really something to have. I see lot of junior developers who use their own computer for games, studies and programming.
2/ For me, a good concurrency model is a way better than multi-core / parallelism support for 1.x version.
I see issues open for this and Elixir / Erlang was mentioned. Beam-VM, at its heart, is really close to the CSP model of Go. The major difference is each job (the “process”) has a queue attached (a mailbox). In the Go language, we can say it is like a default “channel” for each go-routine :)
Genserver and all other strategies are more related to OTP than Erlang itself. It’s a higher level layer.
Thanks for reading. I’ve finished.
Take your time, dear Crystal team, we are patient :)