I’m asking because they presented Crystal as Ruby with OOP and high performance. I’m asking because I’m curious, is it the ruby syntax that much better?
Coming from C (no ++) and Java the first thing I noticed after a month with Ruby (in 2005?) was that I didn't write any for loop. I mean, those useless for (i = 0; i < length (array); i++). They become array.each. Then I loved the blocks and later on the postfix if and unless. It's not perfect, it's got its quirks and metaprogramming sometimes is easier in Python, sometimes not, but overall it's the easiest language I used so far. I never tried Crystal because of the compilation step. I really don't need the extra speed for my sw and no customer asked me Crystal so far. I guess it's going to be a similarly pleasant experience.
instead of redefining the class. It's similar to JavaScript. However I don't have a computer at hand now. I can't check the details and what could be done on Ruby.
