r/crystal_programming

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Crystal, the programming language

/r/Crystal_Programming revolves around Crystal, a programming language that attempts to combine the power and speed of C-like languages with the simplicity and elegance of a Ruby-like syntax. Some questions have better chance in the Crystal forum (https://forum.crystal-lang.org)

Created Oct 18, 2014

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r/Crystal_Programming revolves around Crystal, a programming language that attempts to combine the power and speed of C-like languages with the simplicity and elegance of a Ruby-like syntax.

Crystal's Goals, from the GitHub page:

Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal)
Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.
Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.
Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.
Compile to efficient native code.

Links:

Website
GitHub
Documentation: Manual, API
Mailing list: Google Group
Chat: Gitter, #crystal-lang on Freenode
Libraries: Curated, All
New announcements: Crystal [ANN]

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