sord VS crystal

I tend to follow along using the YardDoc comment style. It has many small things I love about it; an example is when yardoc is followed it can be used to generate RBS/Sorbet type files with the sord gem, you can also generate application documents similar to rdoc/sdoc.

You may be interesting in checking out the Sord gem. If you do YARDOC based comments and documentation in your code not only does it make your code pretty easy to understand. But you can also generate Sorbet RBI and Ruby RBS files based off of your documentation. It's pretty much a require in any new project I start working with.

I love using yard as well and if you use it you can use sord and based on you yard annotates it'll build sorbet types for your code. I've used it on my last few projects and it's helped building your types setup amazingly easy.

Sord was originally developed to generate Sorbet type signature files from YARD comments. Sorbet is a type checking system developed by Stripe, and it does not use anything specific to Ruby 3 but is instead a custom DSL for defining types. However, Sord has recently been upgraded to support generation of RBS files (Ru*by **Signature*). This means that instead of having to write all your Ruby 3 type signature files by hand (which are standalone—Ruby 3 doesn't support inline typing in Ruby code itself), you can write YARD comments—just like with Solargraph—and autogenerate the signature files.

Why isn't anyone talking about Sord?? I see that as being a great solution. https://github.com/AaronC81/sord#example

Go for both until things evolve : https://github.com/AaronC81/sord

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).