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The Crystal language is ready for production, 12 years after inception. Crystal is compiled for performance, typed for safety, Ruby-like for productivity. We interviewed the head of the Crystal team.

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The developers of the Nim programming language have released version 1.0, promising programmers a "stable base" for their code that won't be broken by future versions of Nim.