On Saturday, 1 May 2021 at 13:04:15 UTC, sighoya wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
What are the strengths and weaknesses comparing the two
languages ?
I can name a strength of dlang is the working binding to tk
and gtk.
Just to say, Crystal is a neat language, feels like a static
ruby.
Strengths:
- Poweful type inference
- lightweight julian/ruby like syntax
- nice lightweight macros, don't know if they were a good fit
for D
- nice yield builtins
- feels like a lightweight Java
- nice high level feeling and is GCed
Weaknesses:
- as I said, it is hard to understand when type inference is
used completely everywhere, said that this is crystals killer
feature
- slow compilation time just because of the "type inferred
everywhere" design
I seriously wonder if this is a criterion. For example Gitlab
which is known to get updated each month, still uses Ruby in
their backend. So their clients use scripts that could be 2x to
20x faster if made in Crystal.
- the OOP system lacks specific features from other OOP systems
- hasn't the same support for low level programming as in D or
Nim
- is relative unknown, although I don't know why.
