Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal: Blazing fast, fewer bugs, and even more fun.
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I love Ruby and I love Rails, but I’ve found myself searching for something more. Something fast so I don’t need to add caching. Something type-safe so customers see fewer bugs. Something fun to use so I actually enjoy building applications.Would Elixir scratch my itch? It was a good start. It made it fun to write beautiful code, but I still encountered bugs in production that could have been caught with a better type system.There’s Elm. It’s beautiful. Fun. But only available on the front-end.I played briefly with Go and Rust, but I felt like the type-system and syntax was too unfriendly for me to enjoy using them.Finally, I tried CrystalAt first, I was pretty put-off by Crystal. It looked almost identical to Ruby, so why would I try it?Well eventually I did try it, and I fell in love (...)
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