On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:

Pros of Crystal

1. Attractive syntax. I like Ruby like syntax. It's really expressive.

Cons of Crystal

1. It doesn't have a compiler for Windows. It uses WSL based compiler and I think it's a bad idea.

I don't think I need to tell the pros & cons of D lang in it's own forum.
BTW, I wonder to see someone says that they have succeeded in compiling a tkD example code. I tried it with no luck. So I gave up that idea.

BTW, I wonder to see someone says that they have succeeded in compiling a tkD example code. I tried it with no luck. So I gave up that idea.

What are the strengths and weaknesses comparing the two languages ?
I can name a strength of dlang is the working binding to tk and gtk.

tkd works perfectly. Which O.S. are you using ? I can guide.

I used tkD a long time ago. Look through this repo - maybe something in there will help you.

I did this @2014. No problems remembered.

On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:

Just to say, Crystal is a neat language, feels like a static ruby.

Strengths:

• Poweful type inference
• lightweight julian/ruby like syntax
• nice lightweight macros, don't know if they were a good fit for D
• nice yield builtins
• feels like a lightweight Java
• nice high level feeling and is GCed

Weaknesses:

• as I said, it is hard to understand when type inference is used completely everywhere, said that this is crystals killer feature
• slow compilation time just because of the "type inferred everywhere" design

• the OOP system lacks specific features from other OOP systems
• hasn't the same support for low level programming as in D or Nim
• is relative unknown, although I don't know why.

I seriously wonder if this is a criterion. For example Gitlab which is known to get updated each month, still uses Ruby in their backend. So their clients use scripts that could be 2x to 20x faster if made in Crystal.

On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 22:41:03 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:

Pros of Crystal

1. Attractive syntax. I like Ruby like syntax. It's really expressive.

Cons of Crystal

1. It doesn't have a compiler for Windows. It uses WSL based compiler and I think it's a bad idea.

I don't think I need to tell the pros & cons of D lang in it's own forum.
BTW, I wonder to see someone says that they have succeeded in compiling a tkD example code. I tried it with no luck. So I gave up that idea.

On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:16:16 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:

What's wrong with WSL. I think it is a great idea.