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Crystal 1.9.0 is released! (crystal-lang.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I learned about Crystal from somebody's Lemmy comment a couple weeks ago. Amazing and under rated language.

Their announcement is pretty lackluster tho lol.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Between Elixir and Erlang, or between the Java and Erlang VM?

Elixir and Erlang are distinct languages. Here the comparison to the Java VM is apt, in that it's like Java and Clojure. Different languages, same VM.

If you want an overview on the differences between the VMs then that would be too much for this comment. Here is an article on Erlang Solutions talking about some of them more in depth. If I piqued your curiosity I can also highly recommend this talk from Sasa Yuric. It's not long and very concisely captures what makes the BEAM so nice to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Between Elixir and Erlang. Erlang is what's used in telecom right? Is Elixir as well? Is Elixir like a new improved Erlang? I've heard so much about Elixir recently.

You have piqued my interest, I've recently gotten back into programming (I do "devops" for work) and don't really consider myself a programmer, but I find languages fascinating. I was lucky enough to join a study group on compiler design with an Apache project leader and while it was over my head, I learned a lot and enjoyed it.

(I know I could look this up, but enjoying the conversation :)