I couldn’t click on your link in the HN app.
Link to announcement: https://crystal-lang.org/2025/04/09/1.16.0-released
Also, it’s really cool to see them focusing on concurrency and parallelism. I hope some of that inspirations upstreams to Ruby (syntax wise, maybe not semantically).
One thing I really wish they implemented is making it possible for building standalone binaries that can be run cross-platform, or at least cross-compilation. That would be really cool, I would contribute to that issue if I had knowledge!