2016-05-25 Sidekiq is a popular job framework for Ruby. Now we’re bringing it to Crystal! Why Crystal? I wanted to use a language that was a good complement to Ruby. Its syntax is similar enough to Ruby that I can reuse a lot of code but it adds a huge leap in performance. In summary: very similiar syntax to Ruby at least 3-5x faster than Ruby 2.3 on most code at least 3x smaller in memory footpri