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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. 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
  2. …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
  3. …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
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    Crystal 0.21.0 released
    story by miqkt · 2017-02-22 · 0 comments
  5. …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
  6. 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
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. 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
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    The Crystal Programming Language
    story by sndean · 2016-12-19 · 193 comments
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. …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
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. …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
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    Crystal – The Programming Language
    story by iheredia · 2016-06-21 · 1 comment
  19. 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?
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    Use Esperanto instead of English
    story by sdogruyol · 2016-04-01 · 5 comments
  21. …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
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    Crystal 0.10.0 released
    story by daviducolo · 2015-12-24 · 0 comments
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    The next step – Crystal
    story by Samis2001 · 2015-10-27 · 0 comments
  24. …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
  25. …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
  26. …(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
  27. …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
  28. Already has GitHub color coding? https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by elwell · 2014-11-25 · in Crystal: the programming language
  29. …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
  30. …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
  31. …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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. Have a look at Crystal as well. https://github.com/manastech/crystal
    comment by pjmlp · 2013-05-01 · in Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays
  35. …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?
  36. …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?
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    Crystal - Better Ruby, compiles to native code
    story by johnx123-up · 2013-03-13 · 1 comment
  38. 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