Hello everybody,

I am 17 years old, I love to code and I cannot decide which new language I should learn.

What do you think of Rust and Crystal? What would you prefer? What is better?

What do you already know man?

Rust is supposedly popular and good to work with... also it might sound odd but look at what languages will hook you up in the future.

@jamescodesthing Go, C++, JS

@echProton sounds like expanding out might help, branch into different paradigms to see what else you can play with?

But dude you do what you want to do 😄 you’re young still. Rust is always a good one 😊

Honestly I haven’t even come across Crystal 😞 sorry I can’t help there.

are you sure you "know" all of these languages well enough already? Having used many languages might give you a big picture but mastery will enable you to actually push the boundaries of whats possible and do something new one day

just a thought 😃

Crystal is waaaaay better *sniffs*. We're talking about meth right? *sniffs*

Wanna do something hardcore that will mess with your brain? Try Racket or Clojure. Clojure for the Brave and True is a good resource. Also, if you don't know Ruby try learning a lil bit before you go into Crystal.

@sslPoodle I wouldn't say c++ is used everywhere. I mean, a ton of stuff is written in c++ and all higher level languages probablly are interpreted by something written in c++ but companies don't like c++.

The problem with c++ is that it's slow and expensive. And I mean slow as in development time here. So companies try to use a higher level language when possible to get more done with less devs and time.

@sslPoodle Crystal isn't a JVM language. It's a compiled language and the compiler is written in Crystal

@simulate Yeah, I even have some successful projects 😎

@echProton uuh but how did they compile the compiler? 😲

@sslPoodle you say "stuck with the JVM" but your avatar has a Java logo in it as well as your profile listing Kotlin so I am not sure if you like the JVM or not. And Crystal does not run on the JVM, it is a language with basically the same syntax as the Ruby prog language and delivers fast compiled code. Even then, if we gauge the entire ecosystem that the JVM has to offer I fail to see a reason why it would be a bad choice.