Crystal Programming Language

I don't understand why Ruby's syntax is seen as so elegant. It's ambiguous and a nightmare to parse. http://programmingisterrible.com/post/42432568185/how-to-par...

I used Crystal to create a web application a 2-3 years ago. It is running great without any problems. There are not that many users (only about 300-400) at any time. Anyhow, I did not touch the application in the last two years, and did not use Crystal in the last two years for anything else. I used Rust to write some simple personal CLI apps, which was fun but also hard. For some reason, couple of days back I…

There are a couple of features I'd love Crystal to have, but I might be in the minority. One, immutability by default, or rather, make immutability more the rule than the exception. Two, type checked named parameters/keyword arguments. Yes they are verbose, but they make it much more clear what the code is doing upon 2nd, 3rd,..... 100th reading than something like MyObject.method(a, b, 1, zurb, foobar, false, -1, "bob"), where the order is important and the variables don't ned…

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