I have a plan.. I really DO

[bauss]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 20:13:07 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Crystal is a fantastic language already.

As someone who uses many languages, I tend to just use what does 
the task at hand best.

I'm sure I'll be able to find some usage for Crystal when it's 
production ready, but it doesn't mean I'll abandon D. That'll 
probably never happen, especially considering I have a lot of 
projects written in D with thousands of lines of code.