How is Crystal a "half baked language"?

Thaxll · on July 29, 2020

The current state of Crystal is basically a language for PoC during the week-end, it's far from being ready.

I could go on about what's wrong with the language but:

It's not stable, API change all the time, breaking change all the time, cryptic errors, lot of missing basic features, IDE integration etc ...

kgraves · on July 29, 2020

> The current state of Crystal is basically a language for PoC during the week-end, it's far from being ready.

That is changing, earlier this year, the Crystal team are working on getting the language stable for 1.0 [0]

Companies are already now using Crystal in production, most recently Nikola Motor Company [1].

Surely they wouldn't choose crystal if it was a 'half baked' language.

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/2020/03/03/towards-crystal-1.0.html

[1] https://manas.tech/blog/2020/02/11/nikola-motor-company/

Thaxll · on July 30, 2020

You will always find someone somewhere picking up a language / framework and thinking it's production ready, from my experience Crystal is not ready and in the example you gave there is absolutly no reason to no use Rust. They needed C binding, and the fact that they started using Crystal years ago when the state was even worse is very worrisom.

mekster · on July 29, 2020

You wouldn't know what edge cases it might have unless the language becomes a "major language" to have more eyes.

I don't think average programmers even know about it.

yawaramin · on July 31, 2020

It's at version 0.3.5 currently and their latest blog post is about how their main goal is to reach 1.0 which will be stable.