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Crystal's is about a year older than Rust. If it was going to get popular it would have by now.


>Crystal's is about a year older than Rust. If it was going to get popular it would have by now.

You mean at least a year younger ?

Rust

>The language grew out of a personal project begun in 2006 by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare,[18] who stated that the project was possibly named after the rust family of fungi.[29] Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009[18] and announced it in 2010.

Crystal

>Work on the language began in June 2011


I guess. It probably would have been better to say they're about the same age. I went by Rust's first pre-alpha release, maybe I should have used an earlier event.




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