RoyalUr.net VS crystal

Fancy a game? https://royalur.net/

https://royalur.net/ for ur for example

there are rules and they are pretty simple but make for very fun games, https://royalur.net/ you should be able to learn the rules simply by playing it however if you still don't understand the rules Wikipedia should have you cover this site allows you to play it on a computer against ai, friends, local friends and random people

Roll the dice and get to the end of the game, in its most simple term. This video from the British Museum explains the rules in more detail and even shows a play through. You can also play the game against a computer at this website.

Go discover for yourself: https://royalur.net/

It would be great to play with someone who isn't a computer. Feel free to reach out to me whenever and something can be arranged. We can play on royalur.net.

There’s also various web based versions like this one

You can play the game at https://royalur.net!

27. Crystal - $77,104

I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

    # A very basic HTTP server

Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago.

If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly ruby-like in syntax, style, and developer ergonomics.[^2] Although it's an entirely different language. Also a tiny community.

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/

Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well.

Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything.

My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting.

I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really interesting and am hoping it has its own "ruby on rails" moment that helps the language reach a tipping point in popularity. All the beauty of ruby with all of the speed of Go (and then some, it often compares favorably to languages like rust in benchmarks).