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Python is to Nim as Ruby is to Crystal.


More like Crystal could become to Ruby what RPython is to python


That makes no sense. RPython is not a general-purpose development language, it's a strict subset of Python for writing VMs. From what I understand Crystal aims to be a general-purpose statically-typed native-compiled language with a syntax similar to Ruby in much the way Nim aims to be a general-purpose statically-typed native-compiled language with a syntax similar to Python.

Neither Nim nor Crystal exist solely to write VMs and auto-implement JITs, and programs in neither is expected to run unmodified on a VM for the inspiration language.




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