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Crystal 1.16.0

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satvikpendem ◴[] No.43650003[source]
How has using Crystal been, anyone using it in production?
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pankajdoharey ◴[] 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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nine_k ◴[] No.43650501[source]
What is the reason of such advantage over Go? The latter is known to be geared towards concurrency, and also for having a very fast GC.
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Imustaskforhelp ◴[] No.43650647[source]
man, I wish for something like crystal but with a little more golang like syntax.

I hate OOP though, I may be wrong but crystal afaik is OOP. I wish for a non OOP golang-esque crystal alternative.

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1. pmarreck ◴[] No.43650670[source]
Roc?

They're unfortunately in the middle of a compiler rewrite from Rust to Zig right now though