If You Love Ruby But Need More Speed: Elixir vs Crystal

If you write Ruby code, you already know why it is so popular. It is incredibly easy to read, and frameworks like Ruby on Rails make building web apps very fast. But eventually, every Ruby developer hits a wall. Maybe your app needs to handle thousands of live websocket connections (like a chat app), and Ruby starts eating all your server's RAM. Or maybe you have a script that processes millions of rows of data, and it is just too slow. When this happens, Ruby developers usually look at two a