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  1. I have to agree on Crystal issue for Windows support has been open for... 6 years https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/26
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-06-06 · in Nim 0.20.0 (1.0 RC1) released
  2. There are multiple companies using it in production: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product... other then that it is used across multiple projects in github, for anything from webapps, machine-learning,…
    comment by bararchy · 2019-06-06 · in Crystal 0.29
  3. …use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain. Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by sdogruyol · 2019-02-01 · in Crystal 0.27.1 released
  4. Yeah, it’s only now MT schedulers is work in progress to bring multithread fibers to Crystal https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/7214
    comment by proyb2 · 2018-12-25 · in Ruby 2.6
  5. There is on-going checklists to implement the remaining tasks: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
    comment by proyb2 · 2018-11-04 · in Crystal 0.27.0 released
  6. Windows support is... not good. http://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/26
    comment by svnpenn · 2018-11-04 · in Crystal 0.27.0 released
  7. Crystal. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612b...
    comment by interfixus · 2018-09-22 · in A Programming Language Underdog
  8. …use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain. Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by sdogruyol · 2018-08-16 · in Crystal on Windows: A Deep Dive on Exception Handling
  9. …question being quite legitimate. [0]: https://twitter.com/sdogruyol/status/833369972919382019 [1]: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/tree/thread-support
    comment by lloeki · 2018-08-14 · in Crystal 0.26.0 released
  10. No note of parallelism on the roadmap? https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Roadmap
    comment by patagonia · 2018-08-13 · in Crystal 0.26.0 released
  11. …single-threaded. https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html Still no windows support: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
    comment by Blackstone4 · 2018-06-29 · in Crystal 0.25.1 released
  12. …the organization. Also Crystal has a dedicated a wiki page for production users Used in production: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
    comment by sdogruyol · 2018-06-29 · in Crystal 0.25.1 released
  13. …a crack at fixing this. Could you try my make_portable.sh script on one of your Crystal binaries? https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/3067#issuecom...
    comment by Birch-san · 2018-06-16 · in Crystal 0.25
  14. Seems like the most relevant issue is here: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/3067#issuecom...
    comment by bazeblackwood · 2018-06-15 · in Crystal 0.25
  15. …the following issues are resolved, or that the project has indicated a recommended way to do this? https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
    comment by bazeblackwood · 2018-06-15 · in Crystal 0.25
  16. I'm confused about the state of threading in Crystal. See the last message in : https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/1967#issuecom... I'm hoping to see more languages with light-weight threads automatically mapped (multiplexed)…
    comment by samuell · 2018-06-15 · in Crystal 0.25
  17. If anyone is looking for companies that are using it in production (like I was), here's a list: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product... Crystal always fascinates me when it gets brought up, and I'd really like to…
    comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2018-06-15 · in Crystal 0.25
  18. …production ready in it. But I'm a bit vary as for the casual observer the Crystal project github ( https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ) seems brim with unsolved issues (over 500 issues!) and stale PR-s (over 105!). I'm not sure if…
    comment by mannycalavera · 2018-06-15 · in Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018
  19. …this is a big problem for many though and there is evidence that the Crystal team are on it; see https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430 . Please don't take the post too seriously, it's not intended to be and clearly everyone…
    comment by fgimian · 2018-06-11 · in Why Crystal Is My Next Language
  20. …use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain. Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by sdogruyol · 2018-06-11 · in Why Crystal Is My Next Language
  21. …probably a problem with dynamic linking. That seems to have been discussed on the issue tracker https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/2003
    comment by yorwba · 2018-04-15 · in The Crystal Programming Language
  22. …specific usecase. Hopefully a distro/homebrew package. I wrote about this in longer form here: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/3328#issuecomme... .
    comment by RX14 · 2018-02-22 · in Do not use NPM 5.7
  23. …the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest. edit: re: "What is crystal?" https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ... I will say, I'm intrigued. I do love ruby, but unfortunately also hate dynamic typing. Crystal…
    comment by erickj · 2018-01-09 · in Which is the fastest web framework?
  24. …use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain. Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by sdogruyol · 2018-01-09 · in Reasons for Ruby-Ists to Use Crystal
  25. Crystal production users: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
    comment by sdogruyol · 2017-12-20 · in This is not a new year’s resolution
  26. Have you seen https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/3582 ?
    comment by RX14 · 2017-12-19 · in Overview of the Crystal language
  27. …thread support I'd probably go with Elixir (even taking into consideration BEAM weirdness). [0] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Threads-support [1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/tree/thread-support
    comment by eatonphil · 2017-12-19 · in Overview of the Crystal language
  28. Windows support is still WIP, recently we are making some good progress https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/5339
    comment by sdogruyol · 2017-12-19 · in Overview of the Crystal language
  29. …use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain. Website: https://crystal-lang.org/ Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by sdogruyol · 2017-12-19 · in Overview of the Crystal language
  30. We have a dedicated wiki page for Crystal production users :) https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
    comment by sdogruyol · 2017-12-19 · in Overview of the Crystal language
  31. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crystal-lang/xG5MQXT... and https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4864 Crystal is improving everyday :)
    comment by faaq · 2017-10-28 · in Crystal in Production: Diploid
  32. …it's method arguments more (which gives you better docs and error messages anyway ). For more info: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4864
    comment by RX14 · 2017-10-28 · in Crystal in Production: Diploid
  33. …OK. It's promising and will definitely help CPU bound apps :) You can check the wiki for more info https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Threads-support
    comment by sdogruyol · 2017-10-28 · in Crystal in Production: Diploid
  34. Again Crystal is not Ruby. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4731#issuecom... > we might never get static typing for Ruby anytime soon Yes we will not get type declarations as a part of Ruby syntax anytime soon, but this…
    comment by stereobooster · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Ruby static type checker – proof of concept
  35. Crystal is not Ruby. Please do not advertise it as a drop in replacement. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4731#issuecom... Imagine you have a big ruby project in production and you want to add static type checking. You won't…
    comment by stereobooster · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Ruby static type checker – proof of concept
  36. …which is on the roadmap [0] for 1.0. The compiler itself builds in ~10 seconds. [1] [0]: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Roadmap [1]: https://crystal-lang.org/2015/12/24/the-future-of-crystal.ht...
    comment by theodorton · 2017-08-25 · in Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go
  37. …chunk. The first part of windows support is already merged and in the latest release here [2]. [1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/tree/b3c8f87fbe43669... [2] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4491
    comment by RX14 · 2017-07-10 · in How to build video games for Windows using Crystal
  38. This is the worst thing I've ever found, still not solved: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4127
    comment by RX14 · 2017-05-06 · in The Horror in the Standard Library
  39. It seems like porting Crystal to run on WIndows is work in progress: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/3582
    comment by dejv · 2017-03-24 · in Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
  40. …is). https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html meanwhile, crystal does not even support windows yet. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/26
    comment by zem · 2017-03-24 · in Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
  41. …certainly not hellish yet. However the LLVM debug info generator is a different story... [1] [0] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/c60df09b5082918... [1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/llvm...
    comment by RX14 · 2017-03-13 · in LLVM 4.0.0
  42. …rust but you can see that LLVM doesn't do a perfect job. The diff is still quite small however. [1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/3491
    comment by RX14 · 2017-02-11 · in Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here
  43. Here are the reasons for 'end': https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/FAQ#why-isnt-th...
    comment by asterite · 2016-12-19 · in The Crystal Programming Language
  44. …org/docs/syntax_and_semantics/c_binding... > support inline assembly Crystal has this too, used here: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/fibe... although this too could be improved. Overall I think Crystal has promise,…
    comment by RX14 · 2016-12-19 · in The Crystal Programming Language
  45. Untyped number literals is the second issue with more number of +1 reactions. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/2995
    comment by faaq · 2016-12-19 · in The Crystal Programming Language
  46. An interesting thing: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/conc... Looks like they took the Fiber concept of ruby and made it into something like goroutines, with channels handling.
    comment by oelmekki · 2016-12-19 · in The Crystal Programming Language
  47. Fixes for many of the issues raised by this post have since made it into crystal master: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/7eb738f550818...
    comment by RX14 · 2016-10-26 · in Parsing JSON is a Minefield
  48. We (think we) have good reasons for that: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/FAQ#why-isnt-th...
    comment by asterite · 2016-08-04 · in Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
  49. For the ones who started to wonder about the Windows support, it is tracked here: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/26
    comment by patates · 2016-08-04 · in Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
  50. …compilation. Blog: https://crystal-lang.org/2014/12/06/another-language.html Github Issue: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/681
    comment by mshenfield · 2016-08-04 · in Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby