Introduction to Crystal: A Performant Language with Ruby's Syntax
The Birth of Crystal In the vast landscape of programming languages, a new star has emerged, shining bright with the promise of combining the elegance of Ruby with the performance of C. Welcome to Crystal, a language that has been in development since 2011 and has finally reached its 1.0 milestone. History and Motivation Crystal was born out of the desire to create a language that captures the simplicity and readability of Ruby while offering the performance and type safety of compiled languages like C....