I may be one of the few to use Crystal in anger for long running programs but unfortunately we had to do away with it because of longstanding issues in the runtime where exceptions at the wrong time during I/O bring the runtime to a halt. It's been a few years so I don't have the github issue off the top of my head anymore. I'd like to think that if they could redesign the language again they would not have exceptions and destructors/finalize.
It's a great language for CLIs though. I'm glad to see the team still pressing on.
It's a great language for CLIs though. I'm glad to see the team still pressing on.