crystal VS Odin

Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly.

https://crystal-lang.org/

If you like the Ruby syntax (but want a statically typed language), you might want to take a look at Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

> Crystal is statically typed and type errors are caught early by the compiler, eliminating a range of type-related errors at runtime.

I really enjoyed using Crystal last year. It is a very ergonomic language with a featureful standard library. I was tempted to use it again this year, but I figured I should use this opportunity to try something new. After considering several languages including Go, F#, Nim, and Raku, I decided to go with Gleam.

Temp file issue is debunked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684848

Dir module works fine, though maybe the docs could be improved. https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.13.3/Dir.html . The stdlib code is also highly readable: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/d14d04562/src/d... shows that #each_child just calls #read and yields it to the block, so I don't think this is really a wart :)

27. Crystal - $77,104

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

    # A very basic HTTP server

When I look at a programming language site, I want a quick way to navigate to a reasonably sized code sample, optionally documented, but show me the code.

Sites which do this well:

  https://odin-lang.org/

Here is the website: https://odin-lang.org/ - which was not obvious.

Or maybe you want a language that's more geared towards game dev, and includes a lot of the commonly use libraries? Odin

I have noticed a trend for Rust game development to revolve around developing engines that are "high-performance," particularly with a focus on entity component systems. This is development for the sake of optimisation and premature is putting it lightly.

Let me say this loud and clear for anyone who dares to hear a fool: don't even think about performance until it becomes a problem and even then you could still probably stand to ignore it. Ergonomics are infinitely more important for an engine. If you can't develop and iterate quickly you can't prove your ideas and make something fun. These are two things Rust is very bad at.

Rust is good at many things, but game development is really not one of them. C++ is still okay. If you want to try something new, Odin[1] is shaping up nicely.

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

Odin website sure could! Highlights according to landing page:

> Data-Oriented, Simplicity, High Performance, "Batteries Included", Open Source (BSD 3)

https://odin-lang.org/