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138 mentions on Hacker News by 97 people: 19 stories, 119 comments · first 2013-03-13 · latest 2026-04-16

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  1. …at all, look at the source implementation of their language implementation. For example, the lexer: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/comp... . Seems pretty clear to me. How am I supposed to learn the language's…
    comment by catnaroek · 2016-08-04 · in Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
  2. …at all, look at the source implementation of their language implementation. For example, the lexer: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/comp... Seems pretty clear to me. (2) Not entirely sure what you mean since that is…
    comment by Svenskunganka · 2016-08-04 · in Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
  3. …syntax, and Julia because it seems to be shaping up into a language I like even more than Ruby. [1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal [2]
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2016-07-21 · in New Features in Ruby 2.4
  4. crystal-lang's standard library is a good example. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
    comment by vjdhama · 2016-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  5. …to come from BEAM, (Erlang VM) and its associated cockroach-like properties. There's also Crystal ( https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ), if what you want is a Ruby-inspired language with static typing and compilation to native code.
    comment by AsyncAwait · 2016-03-20 · in Show HN: Rhine – A typed Elixir-inspired language on LLVM
  6. …than if it were written in something that can just be built on Windows (C? Go?). I did find this: https://github.com/manastech/crystal/issues/26 ...but the effort seems to have stalled. Cross-compilation would fix the bootstrapping…
    comment by SomeCallMeTim · 2015-08-06 · in Crystal-Lang – Beauty of Ruby, Faster Than Go
  7. …in seeing benchmarks, which Crystal is probably not ready to share, but may have conducted: https://github.com/manastech/crystal/blob/master/samples/fan... Edit: this[0] seems to indicate that the optimizations are in the same ballpark as…
    comment by espadrine · 2015-06-06 · in Crystal Language
  8. …(or the other way around ;-)) porting it to Crystal was pretty easy in the end. There's this tag: https://github.com/manastech/crystal/releases/tag/ruby You can read about the bootstrapping moment here:…
    comment by asterite · 2015-06-06 · in Crystal Language
  9. …Here's another one: https://github.com/nsf/pnoise And then in the samples directory ( https://github.com/manastech/crystal/tree/master/samples ) there are some more but without time results (but you can try them yourself).
    comment by asterite · 2014-11-25 · in Crystal: the programming language
  10. Already has GitHub color coding? https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by elwell · 2014-11-25 · in Crystal: the programming language
  11. …syntax isn't as nice as Ruby, but you can't go wrong for interoperability. Oh, also [Crystal]( https://github.com/manastech/crystal ) looks very promising, but it's too immature as of yet. Beyond that I've decide it's also time to step up…
    comment by transfire · 2013-09-23 · in Ruby 2.1.0 preview1 released
  12. …coder these days, I can't see myself choosing this over other compiled languages at this point. [1] https://github.com/manastech/crystal/wiki/Introduction
    comment by ser0 · 2013-09-06 · in Meet Crystal language in its birthday. It is compiled and has ruby like syntax
  13. …to Ruby as possible. The creator stated some reasons why they created Crystal on the github repo. https://github.com/manastech/crystal#why
    comment by jsnk · 2013-09-06 · in Meet Crystal language in its birthday. It is compiled and has ruby like syntax
  14. Just use Crystal instead, https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by pjmlp · 2013-05-05 · in ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend
  15. I wonder if something like Crystal could have helped. https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by pjmlp · 2013-05-01 · in Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays
  16. Have a look at Crystal as well. https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by pjmlp · 2013-05-01 · in Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays
  17. …new language that uses Ruby syntax and compiles to C using LLVM. Pretty cool looking actually. [1] https://github.com/manastech/crystal/wiki/Introduction
    comment by Corrado · 2013-03-22 · in Why Ruby?
  18. …to Java. With Play! and Scooter, Java is more Ruby than Scala. With native compile support Crystal https://github.com/manastech/crystal may soon get all Ruby crowd again.
    comment by johnx123-up · 2013-03-22 · in Why Ruby?
  19. Yes, have a look at Crystal. https://github.com/manastech/crystal It is still an ongoing development, though.
    comment by pjmlp · 2013-03-13 · in How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go