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Add to SafariWhen comparing Crystal vs Lobster, the Slant community recommends Crystal for most people. In the question“What are the best compiled programming languages?” Crystal is ranked 13th while Lobster is ranked 15th.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Elegant syntax as Ruby
Pro Fast performance
Pro Has co-routine
Pro Compiles to native binary
Pro Compile time reference counting
Unlike Rust doesn't make the programmer jump through hoops, mainly automatic. Does an analysis similar to the Rust borrow checker to infer lifetimes, but makes life easier on the programmer.
Pro Python-esque syntax
There's an audience who loves that.
Pro WebAssembly backend
More options for users.
Pro Inline structs
Structs are allocated in their parent, and come at zero overhead.
Pro Automatic memory management
Better than Rust. No sadism.
Pro Type inference algorithm
Just works. Goes further than most languages in terms of allowing code without types.
Cons
Con Aruguably no better than a meme language
The elitest attitudes in the community are unwarrented. Not recommendable for production use. Poor error messages, odd compiler errors, poorly documented behavior, etc..
Con Small community
In regards to its age and already past 1.0, the community is still too small.
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Con Not cross-platform
No official Windows support.
Con A language only Ruby fans can love
Ruby-ish language.
Con Slow compilation
Con No parallelism (yet)
Not actual anymore.
Con Small community
Lead doesn't appear to be so ambitious or has a vision to push making more popular.
Con Compile time reference counting not 100%
Around 5% of time, need to escape to runtime reference counting. Working to get the percentage as low as possible.
Con Lobster not yet totally written in Lobster
Core written in C++. Plans to change that, but has been a long time.
Con Python-like syntax, but different use case and domain
Not Python compatible and often significantly different in purpose and use cases.
