crystal

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SKILL.md

Crystal

Crystal compiles to native code (using LLVM) but looks exactly like Ruby. v1.12 continues improving Windows support and parallelism.

When to Use

  • Performance sensitive Rubyists: Porting heavy Ruby scripts to Crystal for 50x speedup.
  • Microservices: Low memory footprint compared to JVM/Ruby.
  • CLI Tools: Fast startup and execution.

Core Concepts

Fibers

Lightweight concurrency (like Go routines). spawn { ... }.

Macros

Generate code at compile time (like Zig/Lisp).

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