Crystal performance is close to Go-lang. It's just very fast across the board.
Consequently, just like Go-lang, it beats Ruby by an order of magnitude on pretty much any benchmark.
Newcomers often assume Crystal must be sluggish like Ruby because "how could a language with such a convenient syntax be so fast", but it really is not.
Crystal is expressive, 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal.
The DX in Crystal is really closer to Ruby than to Go. It's essentially a very fast and type-safe version of Ruby.
And to add insult to injury, your listening audio quality also gets degraded whenever it's on... So it's a lose-lose for both sides every time you use it.
My main complaint is that OSX has no setting to completely disable it.
I have to manually switch to the Macbook internal mic basically before every call.
I wish they would just sell a model without the crappy mic. I would even happily pay less for it.
Friends don't let friends buy Salesforce (or Oracle)
has been common sense in engineering circles for at least a decade.
It seems founders should adopt a similar stance:
Friends don't let friends get bought by Salesforce.
I wonder if James et al regret having fed their baby to the devil.
Surely a better buyer could have been found, one that
doesn't destroy everything they touch.
But no blame here. They had their well-deserved payday
and we shall remain grateful for all the good patterns,
ideas and years of solid service they contributed to our craft.
This is not about child porn nor about what AV software can or cannot do.
It's about normalising mass surveillance and implementing populace control. They don't want another Snowden to scare the public with reports about "backdoors" and mass privacy violations.
They want the coming generation to perceive it as normal. Because all phones do it, hasn't it always been this way, and think of the children.
Oh, these dissidents in $distant_country that will be muted and killed using Apple's shiny surveillance tech? Well, evil governments do what they do. But we are not like that. Over here it is only about the child predators. Trust us.
Apple has been an opponent of these developments for decades. Now they are spearheading it.
A door without a latch does not prevent
an unauthorized person from trespassing.
A camera without a cover does not prevent
an unauthorized person from trespassing.
Maybe there just isn't much interest in windows support?
Crystal is a fantastic language for server-side programming where it pairs the performance of Golang with the expressiveness of Ruby.
I imagine most Crystal users love it for exactly that reason and have little interest in development resources being diverted to a platform that they have no use for.
Slack can't seriously expect us to apply clumsy workarounds
to their single most important feature (text-entry) that
many of us use hundreds of times per day.
In particular since the solution is
as trivial as adding an off-switch.