Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

Published: Jan. 29, 2016, 8 a.m.

b'Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it\\u2019s the best of both worlds between Ruby and C, why if it\\u2019s so close to and inspired by Ruby why not just give their time/effort to Ruby instead, the new compiler, and we also discussed what\\u2019s left before Crystal can go 1.0.'