diffeqpy VS crystal

With Python you have to write packages in some other language anyways, so you might as well do that with Julia. One of the reasons for getting all of this precompilation going is to eventually ship precompiled system images with things like https://github.com/SciML/diffeqpy, effectively using Julia as a replacement for where C/Fortran is traditionally used there. If I can make that pipeline smooth, then I think Julia as a Python package building source will be a good option for a lot of folks. Right now it's a very manual, but it could easily improve with a bit of tooling.

10-100x speed increase was not an exaggeration for me. With julia I was able to run things quickly on my own machine which I had been running on a compute cluster. I agree that numba could be just as fast as julia. I also just saw that you can run that DE library from julia that I like so much from python using this package. https://github.com/SciML/diffeqpy

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).