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Vincenzo • Edited

why did you do that?

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Relevant xkcd

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Matías García Isaía

Cause we can! 😀

Or, actually, to see if we could!

Really - Crystal was Ary's hobby project at the time. He might (or might not) explain better his motivations at the time, but it was just something fun to do.

At some point, we saw the project had potential - after having used that many programming languages, we could finally create our own one, with the things we liked about others, and without the things we didn't. Or up to a certain level, at least.

Fast-forward some time & efforts, we Manas.Tech as a company saw this could really work - and that it would really improve our day-to-day job if we could develop products to our clients using a language that makes us as happy as we want Crystal to do.

So here we are :)