dlang vs crystal-language

[sighoya]

On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
> What are the strengths and weaknesses comparing the two 
> languages ?
> I can name a strength of dlang is the working binding to tk and 
> gtk.

Just to say, Crystal is a neat language, feels like a static ruby.

Strengths:

- Poweful type inference
- lightweight julian/ruby like syntax
- nice lightweight macros, don't know if they were a good fit for 
D
- nice yield builtins
- feels like a lightweight Java
- nice high level feeling and is GCed

Weaknesses:

- as I said, it is hard to understand when type inference is used 
completely everywhere, said that this is crystals killer feature
- slow compilation time just because of the "type inferred 
everywhere" design
- the OOP system lacks specific features from other OOP systems
- hasn't the same support for low level programming as in D or Nim
- is relative unknown, although I don't know why.