I have a plan.. I really DO

[Ecstatic Coder]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 19:46:06 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 19:42:56 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 17:09:44 UTC, JN wrote:
>>> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 08:43:34 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>>> Once Crystal integrates parallelism (at 1.0), it should 
>>>> become de facto one of the best alternative to Go, Java, C#, 
>>>> etc, because it's actually "Go-made-right". For instance 
>>>> it's genericity system works well, and its type inference 
>>>> system natively support union types.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Except it has no Windows support and doesn't look like it 
>>> will happen anytime soon. Some people might be living in a 
>>> UNIX bubble, but Windows is a big market, and a language 
>>> won't make it big without Windows support.
>>
>> Right :)
>>
>> But remember that Crystal is still in its infancy, as it 
>> hasn't reached its 1.0 version yet.
>>
>> Parallelism is on its way, and Windows support too...
>>
>> Don't forget that nowadays many (can I say most ?) servers are 
>> based on unix variants, so their platform support order looks 
>> perfectly fine and logical to me.
>
> Actually a large share of servers run Windows Server and/or 
> Azure servers running Windows too.
>
> It's not logical to not support both.
>
> D already has that advantage supporting pretty much every 
> platform you can think of.

I agree, but you must compare what is comparable.

Have a look at Crystal's Github project, you will see that 
Crystal, still in development and quite far from its 1.0 mile 
version (= despite no parallism and windows support, etc) ALREADY 
has 11206 stars, 881 forks and 292 contributors :

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal

Not bad for a language in its 0.25 version and first released in 
June 2014 (4 years), especially compared to D in its 2.0 version 
and first released in December 2001 (16 years), whose official 
compiler has 1806 stars, 452 forks and 168 contributors :

https://github.com/dlang/dmd

If those numbers means anything, I think its that Crystal is 
probably getting popularity much quicker than D, and honestly, 
after having tried it, I think it's really deserved, even if I 
agree that there are still many things that remain to be 
implemented before it's really ready for an official 
"production-ready" 1.0 release.