Core Team member Johannes (@JoMueFd) will be presenting a talk about Crystal and its use for Rubyists at Helvetic Ruby 💎
Check it out at helvetic-ruby.ch/talks/#johanne…

We are thrilled to announce the release of Crystal 1.12.0
crystal-lang.org/2024/04/09/1.1…
It's a big release which brings progress on many fronts. Happy Crystalling!

#CrystalLang #release

We relaunched crystal-lang.org with an updated design and a ton of improvements. 🎉🥳
Hope you like it!

Read the anouncement: crystal-lang.org/2024/03/27/web…

#CrystalLang #website #relaunch

We're reorganizing the sponsoring tiers in OpenCollective:
crystal-lang.org/2024/03/25/new…

If you're a sponsor, read about the changes in the current tiers. If not, maybe consider contributing to help us make Crystal better?

#CrystalLang

Happy 3rd anniversary of Crystal 1.0! 🥳🎉
Now we're already approaching the 12th minor release 🚀

Did you know how to approximate any realease date since 1.0?
carc.in/#/r/gllx

So we're expecting Crystal 1.100 in April of 2046. Long way to go! 😆
#CrystalLang

We're happy to announce that Julien Portalier (ysbaddaden) is rejoining the Crystal Core Team. He's working on Crystal at Manas.Tech with a focus on improving multi-threading.
crystal-lang.org/2024/02/28/the…
#CrystalLang #Multithreading

We're partnering with 84codes to improve Crystal's concurrency model for multi-threading. This is going to be a lengthy process, but it's already bearing some early fruits.
#CrystalLang #Multithreading

Crystal sits between dynamic languages like Ruby and compiled languages like C++. Maybe it is a good language to bridge programming language communities... 🤔 Read what Bright has to say:
forum.crystal-lang.org/t/crystal-the-…

#programming #crystallang #rubylang #cpp

Crystal is getting a more formalized mechanism for discussing language change proposals. This should help to line out which steps are needed and clarify where a proposal is standing.
The first order of business is an RFC about the process itself: 🤓
github.com/crystal-lang/r…

Crystal 1.11.2 is released!
This patch release fixes two regression bugs from 1.11.0. You can read the details in crystal-lang.org/2024/01/18/1.1…

We are making good progress in providing full Windows support. Check out the latest advances that make it to the recent release, and what is yet to come, in the hand of Core Team member and experience developer Quinton: crystal-lang.org/2024/01/19/win…

#Windows #Programming #CrystalLang

Crystal 1.11.1 is released!
This patch release reverts two changes from 1.11.0 that brought trouble, and fixes an issue with the interpreter. You can read the details in crystal-lang.org/2024/01/11/1.1…

#CrystalLang #Programming

We are thrilled to announce the release of Crystal 1.11.0!
It's a big release with many exciting features. Read more at crystal-lang.org/2024/01/08/1.1…
Happy Crystalising🙂!
#CrystalLang #release

Jorge gets into the weeds of rewriting a tmux plugin from Bash to a snappy Crystal program that runs five times faster.

youtube.com/watch?v=74_Y06…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang

When looking at a new project or technology, looking at the tests can tell a lot. David Yoteau presents helpful tools for development and CI to ensure software quality.

youtube.com/watch?v=dL0XLR…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang

A Crystal app powers the core product of Bright and in this talk Alexander shares their experiences from production use and wishes for exiting future enhancements.

youtube.com/watch?v=baoDYT…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang

This is another production story from Jeremy Woertink about a video live-streaming platform built with #luckyframework
youtube.com/watch?v=eimNt2…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang

Listen to Zac's tales from implementing a production search engine from the ground up.
KagiHQ is a sponsor of CrystalConf 2023, go check them out!

youtube.com/watch?v=r7t9xP…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang #KagiSearch

From the Blog: Bright and Manas partnered together to create Crystal development tools.
This is the story behind the four new tools:
crystal-lang.org/2023/11/15/bri…

#CrystalLang #AppSec #DevTools

In this talk Seth explains how syntax and design patterns often translate well from #Ruby to Crystal. But not always, so pay attention!
youtube.com/watch?v=WYIBUO…

#CrystalConf #CrystalLang