It sounds neat, but it doesn’t seem like a direct alternative to rust. For me, the core feature of rust is the borrow checker and the ownership system, which give you most of the convenience and safety of garbage collection but without any runtime overhead.
Of course I don't suggest Crystal for embedded work or non-scripting parts of game engines, but we're on a website written in rust. All the borrow checker does for lemmy is exclude 99% of your backend devs from contributing.
It sounds neat, but it doesn’t seem like a direct alternative to rust. For me, the core feature of rust is the borrow checker and the ownership system, which give you most of the convenience and safety of garbage collection but without any runtime overhead.
Of course I don't suggest Crystal for embedded work or non-scripting parts of game engines, but we're on a website written in rust. All the borrow checker does for lemmy is exclude 99% of your backend devs from contributing.
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