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Crystal was first introduced to me a few years ago but it was still in early development I’ll need to revisit it again now that 1.0 has been released.

I’m curious as to what others in here feel about pros and cons of learning Nim compared to Crystal?

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I'm in the same boat - looking at them both in quick succession, I chose to back nim because the error messages I got from Crystal were unusable.

Now that it is at 1.0, I agree - worth serious reconsideration. That said, it sounds like Nim's concurrency is far more mature than Crystals, and Nim works well on arm etc. So definitely worth another look, but might be a couple more years before I'm able to use it in anger unfortunately.

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