A Look at the Crystal Programming Language for Humans

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  1. crystal

    The Crystal Programming Language

    „All the main platform features for Windows are finished“

    https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

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  3. Vapor

    💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.

  4. docs

    Documentation for Amber Framework (by amberframework)

    It’s a bit of legwork, but it’s there.

    https://github.com/amberframework/docs/blob/master/examples/...

  5. FrameworkBenchmarks

    Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

    Crystal performance is close to Go-lang. It's just very fast across the board.

    Consequently, just like Go-lang, it beats Ruby by an order of magnitude on pretty much any benchmark.

    Newcomers often assume Crystal must be sluggish like Ruby because "how could a language with such a convenient syntax be so fast", but it really is not.

    https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

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