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A new Event Loop for UNIX operating systems
Johannes Müller Julien Portalier
Technical #feature #eventloop #concurrency #84codes

We’re changing how the event loop operates. This improves performance, removes libevent as a runtime dependency, and paves the way to multi-threading.

Latest release Crystal 1.14.0
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Let's hack together at OpenSource Global Hack Week!
mverzilli
Community #talk #hackathon #foss #beginner-friendly #84codes

Join the Crystal Core Team and our friends at 84codes at Major League Hacking OpenSource Global Hack Week 2024, starting on October 4th.

The Power of Crystal: A language for humans and computers @ Helvetic Ruby 2024
Johannes Müller
Community #talk #ruby #helvetic-ruby #conference

A talk by Johannes Müller about Crystal at a Ruby Conference in Switzerland

Digging into struct initialization performance
Julien Portalier
Technical #language #performance

How a quick test of BLAKE3 vs SHA256 in Crystal unveiled a performance issue that stems from the Ruby syntax.

LavinMQ: Understanding code to get the best performance
Beta Ziliani
Success #84codes

Crystal was chosen for maintaining control over the entire codebase.

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Website Relaunch
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Crystal: the lingua franca at Bright
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Windows support in Crystal 1.11
Technical #feature #windows #linking #interpreter
Bright and Manas partner together to create Crystal development tools
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Memories from CrystalConf
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A farewell and a (second) welcome
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Interview with contributor Remilia Scarlet
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Windows support in Crystal 1.9
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Changes in the Steering Committee
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LLVM opaque pointer support has landed
Technical #feature #codegen #llvm
Reveal type in Crystal
Technical #howto #types
Heads up: Crystal is upgrading its Regex engine
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Introduction: Mekhla Mukherjee, Community Manager
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Automating smart buildings with Crystal
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Welcome 2023!
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Latests news from the Crystal Team
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bdw-gc coroutines support
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Crystal's interpreter – A very special holiday present
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Preparing for Crystal 1.2
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Community moderators
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Installing specific versions of Crystal's binary packages
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IRC channel moved to Libera Chat
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Announcing Crystal 1.0 Conference
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Raw Crystal 2020
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Organising a Crystal conference in 2020
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Announcing new apt and rpm repositories
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Preparing our shards for Crystal 1.0
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Shards 0.12.0 released!
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Crystal powered dashboards on the trucks of the future
Success
Alpine-based Docker images
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Introducing shardbox.org
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Parallelism in Crystal
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Genome analysis powered by Crystal
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Snapcraft Summit Montréal
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Formatting pretty numbers for humans
Technical #feature
Using Crystal to power the IOU economy
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Watch: Run, change, build, repeat
Technical #misc
Using CircleCI 2.0 for your Crystal projects
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Crystal Automated Release
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Lucky with Crystal - Fewer Bugs, Better Performance, Incredible Productivity
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Amber - Crystalizing Rails and Phoenix
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Top 5 Reasons for Ruby-ists to Use Crystal
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Crystal Survey 2017 Results
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Diploid and Crystal
NeuraLegion and Crystal
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Launching the 2017 State of Crystal Survey
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Announcing Crystal CodeCamp SF2017
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INSERT INTO shard VALUES ("crystal-db")
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Fibonacci benchmark
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Split the repo!
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Heroku Buildpack
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Buenos Aires Crystal Meetup
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The future of Crystal
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Crystal tools
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It's a typeof magic
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Auto
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Type inference rules
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Garbage Collector
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Good bye Ruby Thursday
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to_proc
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Null Pointer Exception
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