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Crystal 1.16.0

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satvikpendem ◴[11 Apr 25 02:42 UTC] No.43650003[source]▶
How has using Crystal been, anyone using it in production?
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pankajdoharey ◴[11 Apr 25 04:01 UTC] No.43650404[source]▶
I used it in production for a client last yr and i compared that with a go implementation. The concurrency support of crystal on a 40 Core machine beast the socks off golang. Crystal both maxes out all the cores to a high degree, on file io and overall speed of execution. The time taken to do the same task Crystal; beats go by a significant margin while being so easy to write. And go is a easy language to write but Crystal is so much more easy to read because of Ruby syntax inheritance.
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1. samuell ◴[11 Apr 25 04:53 UTC] No.43650603[source]▶
Can second about the concurrency syntax! Did a small comparison with Go a few years back [1].

I my tests I have got the feeling it is causing a lot less gotchas with blocking go-routines and such. Not sure why that is though.

Surprised to hear about the multi-core performance though! That is super interesting.

[1] https://livesys.se/posts/crystal-concurrency-easier-syntax-t...