The Bike Shed

Chris is joined by Paul Smith to discuss Crystal, a statically-typed and compiled language with a Ruby inspired syntax. Paul has spent much of the past few years exploring Crystal and building a new web framework called Lucky. Paul's infectious enthusiasm for the Crystal language shines through in this discussion covering some of the unique features of Crystal & Lucky, but there is plenty to enjoy even if you're not specifically interested in Crystal. With Lucky, Paul has done a great job of taking the best of what has been built in other frameworks and bring it to Crystal, drawing inspiration from Ruby & Rails, Elixir & Phoenix, and even PHP and the Laravel framework. There's something in this episode for everyone! Crystal If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You Elm Scala Elixir Elixir Phoenix Laravel Laravel Mix Lucky on GitHub Render HTML pages in Lucky Actions and Routing in Lucky Browser tests with LuckyFlow Dusk selectors Guido Van Rossum, Python BDFL, Stepping down VS Code BikeShed e