At the end of 2014 a first draft of a Heroku buildpack for crystal was createad. This was truly great. Being able to run crystal apps in the Heroku stack was charm idea. While we continued to develop the language, the tools, and the standard library, the community around Crystal grew. Many were interested in trying their Crystal-powered web apps in Heroku. The network graph at github for the build
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