A farewell and a (second) welcome
crystal-lang.org
CrystalConf 2023 was a pivoting time for the Crystal Team —the team that works for Crystal at Manas— and the Core Team —the team that governs Crystal. For the Crystal Team, it meant the last event and posting by —now former— Crystal Community Manager, Mekhla Mukherjee. Mekhla has done a terrific job building the Ambassadors Program, helping organize the conference, and taking care of the general communications of the project. Unfortunately, the funding for a full-time Community Manager has run out. We’ll continue the community and communication efforts that we initiated in the past months. Beta Ziliani takes over as coordinator of the Ambassadors Program.
    • morrowindOPMEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’d say lack of libraries, lack of tooling and lack of jobs/mindshare.

      I would love to migrate essential libraries, and work on it full time, if there was a mentor, and some decent donation

      So would everyone else, but that’s the chicken and egg problem. Most languages that succeed these days have some major organization to kickstart them (Dart, Go, Kotlin), or some killer feature for a specific niche (rust, elixir). Crystal has neither, it’s just a nice language.