Anybody tried the Crystal Programming Language (machine-code compiled Ruby)? [closed]

Answer 1

I'm the developer of Foundry; the second article is mine.

A more recent article on the same topic would be "A language for embedded developers"; or you could also track development progress by subscribing at foundry-lang.org.

Please note, however, that my project is commercial, (at least initially) not open-source, and is primarily focused on embedded development. You could still use it on desktops or servers, of course.

I'm also one of ruby-llvm maintainers; please report the problems you've encountered as bugs on the project page.

Answer 2

I'm the developer of crystal. Currently not everything is implemented from the bulleted point list. In fact classes were just started to be implemented.

I really like the idea of it though. But I need to think more about how to implement it. And I also need more time, hehe.

The second article has a completely different approach because it won't introduce a new language: it'll just try to compile a subset of Ruby, or maybe will be compiled to native code but still allow some dynamism with performance costs (I talked to the author of that article some months ago).

My feeling toward both approaches: I really with it could happen. We need a fast language with an elegant, readable, joy to use syntax and library (like what Ruby offers).