Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : crystal Version : 0.15.0 Upstream Author : Manas Technology Solutions <[email protected]> * URL : http://crystal-lang.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Crystal Description : Compiler of the Crystal object-oriented programming language
The Crystal's language syntax is inspired by Ruby, the language is statically type-checked but does not require that the type of variables or method arguments be specified. The project's sources are hosted on GitHub [0]. I started to work on the Debian packaging of the project [1], but I still have some issues to address. The first one: the compiler is written in Crystal so crystal has to be specified in the package's build dependencies - I don't really know how to handle it. This work may be used as a base to build something cleaner. > More information from the website: "Crystal is a programming language with the following goals: * Have the same syntax as Ruby, or at least as similar as possible. * Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments. * Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal. * Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code. * Compile to efficient native code. Why? ---- We love Ruby's efficiency for writing code. We love C's efficiency for running code. We want the best of both worlds. We want the compiler to understand what we mean without having to specify types everywhere. We want full OOP. Oh, and we don't want to write C code to make the code run faster. Status ------ * The project is in alpha stage: we are still tweaking the language and standard library. * The compiler is written in Crystal." Links: [0] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal [1] https://github.com/olbat/debian-crystal [2] http://xmailserver.org/libpcl.html [3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libpcl1
