Crystal vs Diamond
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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. | Diamond is a powerful MVC / Template Framework written in the D Programming Language. Diamond can be used to write powerful websites, webapis or as stand-alone as a template parser. |
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. | - |
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GitHub Stars 20.0K | GitHub Stars 176 |
GitHub Forks 1.7K | GitHub Forks 6 |
Stacks 341 | Stacks 6 |
Followers 350 | Followers 13 |
Votes 286 | Votes 2 |
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What are some alternatives to Crystal, Diamond?
Node.js
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JavaScript
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Python
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Rails
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PHP
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Django
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Ruby
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Laravel
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Java
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Golang
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