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. The project, initially named Joy, was later renamed to Crystal and has been developed by a dedicated team including Ari Borenstein, Juan Wajnerman, and Brian Cardiff, among others. ...