Crystal vs PowerShell: What are the differences?

What is Crystal? Fast as C, slick as Ruby. 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.

What is PowerShell? A task automation and configuration management framework. A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

Crystal and PowerShell are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Shells" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Crystal are:

• 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.

On the other hand, PowerShell provides the following key features:

• Windows PowerShell Workflow
• Windows PowerShell Web Access.
• Support for .NET 4.0

Crystal is an open source tool with 13.5K GitHub stars and 1.05K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Crystal's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, PowerShell has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 73 developers stacks; compared to Crystal, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.