8th Reviews

Crystal (programming language) Reviews

8th mentions (9)

• My history with Forth, and stack machines

  My impression so far is (in general), Forth are practically limited to doing embedded/microcontroller development. For us, web/mobile/desktop app devs, beside: - 8th (https://8th-dev.com) - Factor (https://factorcode.org) Any suggestion which implementation we should look for? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• What the hell is Forth? (2019)

  Is there any "battery-included" ANS Forth (more or less like Python/Go) which provides access to concurrency, networking, database, GUI, etc? Not an embedded device programmer, but mostly deals with frontend apps, and occasionally backend, so those are very relevant to me. Or perhaps use "non-traditional" Forths like 8th (https://8th-dev.com) or Factor (https://factorcode.org)? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Advent of Code 2022

  I'm a couple of days behind in the AoC. To make the challenge more demanding I opted to use a language I'm not extremely familiar with: 8th. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• What is the best way to make lightwheight GUIs in forth?

  My 8th includes a (cross-platform) GUI build around the Nuklear toolkit, nothing extra required. But that may not be what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

• Useful lesser-used languages?

  a FORTH dialect. Currently I'm using 8th https://8th-dev.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

Crystal (programming language) mentions (110)

• Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released

  I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

      # A very basic HTTP server.

  - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Choosing Go at American Express

  If you're interested, take a look at Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/)! - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory

  Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago. If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• What languages are useful for contribution to the GNOME project.

  Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well. Source: 6 months ago

• Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework

  Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything. My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting. I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago