Why “crystal” is being discussed
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I always describe Crystal as “Ruby and Go went off to Argentina and had a beautiful baby together. Who has grown up and has so much promise.”
by lowkeyliesmyth · Oct 23, 2026
I've been happy using Crystal for many things. It's very convenient for small server deploys. When processing a lot of execution traces I ported previous Ruby code to get 40x su…
by viraptor · Oct 22, 2026
That's cool that you have Crystal in production! What are you using it for?
by SwiftyBug · Oct 22, 2026
I used Crystal for a year before moving on to Go, which I value for its faster build times. Bun also keeps improving at fast pace and constantly reduce memory usage which can be…
by todotask2 · Oct 22, 2026
Crystal core dev speaking. In the previous release (1.21) we enabled Execution Contexts as a parallelism engine. https://crystal-lang.org/2026/07/12…
by straight-shoota · Oct 22, 2026
> You have far less agency than you think you do I guess it's possible, but you have no idea how much agency I think I have. To focus on one example you give, "Society itself is…
by andrewla · Oct 22, 2026
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A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their geometrical shape, consisting of flat faces with specific, characteristic orientations. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. Read more on Wikipedia