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ebiester on Sept 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warming up to Go

Is Crystal's whole point to be a staticly typed Ruby, or is there more to it?

(I guess I'd just like some of the things we've learned from functional type systems, such as pattern matching, which I don't see up front.)

sdogruyol on Sept 12, 2015 [–]

Well that's the starting point. Currently more ideas are forming up and being baked into the language.

For example Crystal is removing explicit Threads and switching to Channels as the main concurrency model.

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