Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-05 Thread Vinod K Chandran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 at 18:50:05 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote: What's wrong with WSL. I think it is a great idea. What Imperatorn said is the write thing. Sorry for not being clear.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-05 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 at 18:50:05 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote: On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:16:16 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote: On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote: [...] Pros of **Crystal** 1. Attractive syntax. I like Ruby like syntax. It's really expressive.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-05 Thread Alain De Vos via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:16:16 UTC, Vinod K Chandran 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. Pros of **Crystal** 1. At

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-03 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 12:02:50 UTC, user1234 wrote: 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. I don't think i

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-03 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-learn
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 lang

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-01 Thread Vinod K Chandran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 19:25:16 UTC, Siemargl wrote: I did this @2014. No problems remembered. May be it's my fault. Let me check once again.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-01 Thread Vinod K Chandran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 17:01:52 UTC, TheGag96 wrote: I used tkD a long time ago. Look through [this repo](https://github.com/thegag96/codewrite) - maybe something in there will help you. Thanks for the link. Let me check.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-01 Thread Vinod K Chandran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:49:33 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote: tkd works perfectly. Which O.S. are you using ? I can guide. I am using Windows 10 x64.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-05-01 Thread sighoya via Digitalmars-d-learn
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 ty

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-30 Thread Siemargl via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:16:16 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote: BTW, I wonder to see someone says that they have succeeded in compiling a **tkD** example code. I tried it with no luck. So I gave up that idea. I did this @2014. No problems remembered.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-30 Thread TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:16:16 UTC, Vinod K Chandran 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. Pros of **Crystal** 1. At

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-30 Thread Alain De Vos via Digitalmars-d-learn
tkd works perfectly. Which O.S. are you using ? I can guide.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-30 Thread Vinod K Chandran via Digitalmars-d-learn
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. Pros of **Crystal** 1. Attractive syntax. I like Ruby like syntax. It's really expressive.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-30 Thread sighoya via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 29 April 2021 at 22:47:08 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote: What is the importance of type-annotations in which cases. Specifying invariants which becomes very important when refactoring code. Further it aids as documentation to understand the structures behind. @X @Y @Z makes code som

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-29 Thread Alain De Vos via Digitalmars-d-learn
What is the importance of type-annotations in which cases. @X @Y @Z makes code sometimes unreadable. Sometimes there is a good reason

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-29 Thread sighoya via Digitalmars-d-learn
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. Less type annotations, fewer guarantees, less compile performance as cons.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-29 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 29 April 2021 at 05:54:24 UTC, Berni44 wrote: On Thursday, 29 April 2021 at 05:41:45 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: Crystal has no installer for Windows Is this a strength or a weakness? (SCNR) lol :) In all seriousness though. Since it a quite large population of the world, it's a we

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-28 Thread Siemargl via Digitalmars-d-learn
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. Crystal is Web-only focused. And Crystal is not popular, even compared to D.

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-28 Thread Berni44 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 29 April 2021 at 05:41:45 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: Crystal has no installer for Windows Is this a strength or a weakness? (SCNR)

Re: dlang vs crystal-language

2021-04-28 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-learn
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. Crystal has no installer for Windows