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Work on the language began in June 2011,<ref name="story"/> with the purpose of creating a language which had the elegance and productivity of Ruby and the speed, efficiency and type safety of a compiled language.<ref name="why_crystal"/><ref name="story"/> Initially called ''Joy'', it was quickly renamed to ''Crystal''.<ref name="story"/>

In November 2013, the Crystal compiler (previously written in Ruby) became self-hosting.<ref name="goodbye_ruby"/> The first official version was released in June 2014.<ref name="rel_0.1.0"/> In July 2016 Crystal was added to the [[TIOBE index|TIOBE Index]].

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