I have a plan.. I really DO

[bauss]

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.