Comets, importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,…
—William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 1
Crystal is a new programming language with a syntax heavily influenced by Ruby, to the point that it feels just like writing Ruby. The main difference with Ruby is that Crystal is compiled to C and is, therefore, quite blazingly fast.
Crystal comes with many advantages, such as full support for easy concurrency models, macros, heavy type checks, and one of my favorites: full support for dependencies, via direct Git access, without the need for ...
