I wrote some Crystal recently for a hobby project. I have to say, I really like it.
• Nice syntax (mostly just that blocks/procs are easy to use— Ruby-like syntax is nice, but it’s not really that important)
• straight-forward class/object model
• type system is simple but powerful (union types + type inference are a great combo)
• syntax and std lib that enables functional-style programming, but isn’t strictly functional
• Pretty darn fast— compiles to machine code via LLVM, and seems like it’s not far behind C, C++ and Rust in most benchmarks, despite being garbage collected
What other languages offer a similar profile? D? Swift? Kotlin (via LLVM)?
• Nice syntax (mostly just that blocks/procs are easy to use— Ruby-like syntax is nice, but it’s not really that important)
• straight-forward class/object model
• type system is simple but powerful (union types + type inference are a great combo)
• syntax and std lib that enables functional-style programming, but isn’t strictly functional
• Pretty darn fast— compiles to machine code via LLVM, and seems like it’s not far behind C, C++ and Rust in most benchmarks, despite being garbage collected
What other languages offer a similar profile? D? Swift? Kotlin (via LLVM)?