What is Crystal?
Crystal is a programming language that resembles Ruby but compiles to native code and tries to be much more efficient, at the cost of disallowing certain dynamic aspects of Ruby.
Crystal is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Crystal is an open source tool with 14.1K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Crystal's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Crystal?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use Crystal in their tech stacks, including bitupper, Atnos, and Diploid.
Developers
118 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Crystal.
Crystal Integrations
Why developers like Crystal?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Crystal
Top Reasons
Crystal's Features
- Ruby-inspired syntax.
- Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.
- Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.
- Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.
- Compile to efficient native code.
Crystal Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Crystal?
PHP
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JavaScript
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Python
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Java
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HTML5
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Crystal's Followers
158 developers follow Crystal to keep up with related blogs and decisions.
