<story><title>Crystal 0.26.0 released</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2018/08/09/crystal-0.26.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interfixus</author><text>Some grumpiness in quite a few comments. Pity.
This is an awfully nice language to work with, and the toolchain is starting to grow up - the compiler appears much speedier these days than it used to.
Also: A real grassroots effort unencumbered by megacorporation agendas (Yes, I know. Manas is a comparatively small Argentinian company, and kudos to them for having got the ball rolling). Give these guys a hand like they deserve.
If Crystal keeps on the way it promises, parallellism &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be there, and will be a joy to handle.</text></comment>
<story><title>Crystal 0.26.0 released</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2018/08/09/crystal-0.26.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>payne92</author><text>Pro tip:  when posting to HN, include a summary of &amp;quot;what it is&amp;quot;!  It&amp;#x27;s often hard for readers to figure it out from a changelog.&lt;p&gt;From the docs:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Crystal is a programming language with the following goals:&lt;p&gt;Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal).&lt;p&gt;Be statically type-checked, but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.&lt;p&gt;Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.&lt;p&gt;Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.&lt;p&gt;Compile to efficient native code.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;See:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crystal-lang.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crystal-lang.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>