Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby | Hacker NewsFrom this post, Crystal appears to have some of the things many people have been lusting after in Rust: sophisticated metaprogramming, fewer sigils, a bigger standard library, fibers/coroutines/whatever-they're-called-now.But it still has a GC :(. Rust has completely spoiled me with making it easy to minimize dynamic memory allocation and copies, and to know (almost always) deterministically when
