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davidkellis ◴[29 Jul 20 18:50 UTC] No.23990278[source]▶

>>23989738 (OP) #

At some point it makes more sense to switch to Crystal.

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Lammy ◴[29 Jul 20 19:25 UTC] No.23990622[source]▶

>>23990278 #

Crystal is a non-starter for me since the entire appeal of Ruby is the runtime metaprogramming.

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1. throw_m239339 ◴[29 Jul 20 19:34 UTC] No.23990717[source]▶

>>23990622 #

Crystal has a nice AST based Macro system. IMHO it makes up for it. The problem with Crystal is no direct support for Windows OS compilation which is a non starter for many developers.

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