I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me.
My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are:
1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong).
2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t found a single thread talking about Crystal where someone doesn’t chime in and complain about this)
I have a feeling once it reaches 1.0 and those issues are addressed it’ll get a bit more attention. It deserves it!
My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are:
1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong).
2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t found a single thread talking about Crystal where someone doesn’t chime in and complain about this)
I have a feeling once it reaches 1.0 and those issues are addressed it’ll get a bit more attention. It deserves it!