Crystal recently reached version 1. I had been following it for awhile but never got to really learn it. Most languages I picked up out of hobby the past few years were all functional or functional first language so I those this time around let’s get into a pleasant OOP language. This one seems pleasant enough (fast enough too).

I love reading books and learning from it, especially programming languages. And there is a book about Crystal, I’d work my way through #book-programming-crystal and will document my progress and general feelings about it through this thread. @AstonJ will be joining me in this too - and we’d love for more of you join in as well!

Mostly I’ll be sharing my thoughts, discoveries and feelings as I work from chapter to chapter. I will be cross referencing the documents and exploratory programming results and mention of any new updates or changes the language received at version 1 (which was last month, so after the book was published), so that anyone joining the club afterwards can know the upgrade stories.

Let’s have fun learning and talking Crystal!