December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
4h 36m
English
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 ...
