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Wasn't Rust also lacking libraries as well?

Example: Last time I checked couldn't find a firebase library for Rust, so gave up on it.

Rust seems a bit immature in the library department no? But didn't stop it becoming popular. I bet Crystal will do the same.

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Crystal's is about a year older than Rust. If it was going to get popular it would have by now.

>Crystal's is about a year older than Rust. If it was going to get popular it would have by now.

You mean at least a year younger ?

Rust

>The language grew out of a personal project begun in 2006 by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare,[18] who stated that the project was possibly named after the rust family of fungi.[29] Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009[18] and announced it in 2010.

Crystal

>Work on the language began in June 2011

I guess. It probably would have been better to say they're about the same age. I went by Rust's first pre-alpha release, maybe I should have used an earlier event.