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SE Radio 425: Paul Smith on The Crystal Programming Language and the Lucky Web Framework

Paul Smith of GitHub discusses the crystal programming language and the lucky web framework with Jeremy Jung. They cover the tradeoffs of object oriented vs functional programming; creating and debugging macros; detecting nulls; building a web framework with strict compile time guarantees; conversational elm-like error messages; the benefits of fast rendering times; writing templates with crystal instead of HTML; choosing what to include in a web framework; and crystal’s ecosystem and community.


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