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'''Crystal''' is a [[general-purpose programming language|general-purpose]], [[object-oriented programming language|object-oriented]] programming language designed and developed by Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman and over one-hundred listed contributors.<ref>[https://github.com/manastech/crystal Crystal source code]</ref> Crystal is developed as open source and its syntax is inspired by [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]. CrystalThe language is statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments. Its first official release was released in June 2014.<ref>[http://motion-express.com/blog/why-use-crystal-lang Why Crystal programming language?]</ref><ref>[http://crystal-lang.org/2014/06/19/crystal-0.1.0-released.html Crystal 0.1.0 released!]</ref> While the original Crystal compiler was written in Ruby, in 2013 a new compiler written using the Crystal programming language itself was released.<ref>[http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.html Good-bye Ruby Thursday]</ref> The current release version is 0.11.1 and the language is in an active development phase.

==Description==

Although resembling the Ruby programming language in syntax, Crystal compiles to much more efficient native code using an [[LLVM|LLVM]] backend, at the cost of disallowing the dynamic aspects of Ruby. Recent benchmarks have demonstrated that Crystal has a performance broadly similar to [[C (programming language)|C]] for a wide range of computing tasks.<ref>[https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks Some benchmarks of different languages]</ref><ref>[https://github.com/kostya/crystal-benchmarks-game Crystal implementations for The Computer Language Benchmarks Game]</ref><ref>[https://github.com/smarr/are-we-fast-yet/tree/master/benchmarks/Crystal Are We Fast Yet?]</ref> The language has automated garbage collection and currently offers a [[Boehm garbage collector|Boehm collector]]. Crystal possesses a macro system and supports generics and method and operator overloading.

== Examples ==