170: Less Charted Territory - a podcast by thoughtbot

Chris is joined by Paul Smith to discuss Crystal, a statically-typed and compiled language with a Ruby inspired syntax. Paul has spent much of the past few years exploring Crystal and building a new web framework called Lucky.

Paul's infectious enthusiasm for the Crystal language shines through in this discussion covering some of the unique features of Crystal & Lucky, but there is plenty to enjoy even if you're not specifically interested in Crystal.

With Lucky, Paul has done a great job of taking the best of what has been built in other frameworks and bring it to Crystal, drawing inspiration from Ruby & Rails, Elixir & Phoenix, and even PHP and the Laravel framework. There's something in this episode for everyone!

• Crystal


• If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You


• Elm


• Scala


• Elixir


• Elixir Phoenix


• Laravel


• Laravel Mix


• Lucky on GitHub


• Render HTML pages in Lucky


• Actions and Routing in Lucky


• Browser tests with LuckyFlow


• Dusk selectors


• Guido Van Rossum, Python BDFL, Stepping down


• VS Code


• BikeShed episode w/ German Velasco disucssing Elixir

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