Programming Crystal, 9781680502862
Paperback
This book, the first available on Crystal, shows you how to write applications that have the beauty and elegance of a modern language, combined with the power of types and modern concurrency tooling. Now you can write beautiful code that runs faster, scales better, and is a breeze to deploy.

Programming Crystal

create high-performance, safe, concurrent apps

$79.20

  • Paperback

    230 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2019

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Summary

Crystal is for Ruby programmers who want more performance, or for developers who enjoy working in a high-level scripting environment. Crystal combines native execution speed and concurrency with Ruby-like syntax, so you will feel right at home. This book, the first available on Crystal, shows you how to write applications that have the beauty and elegance of a modern language, combined with the power of types and modern concurrency tooling. Now you can write beautiful code that runs faster…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781680502862
ISBN-10:1680502867
Author:Simon St. Laurent, Ivo Balbert
Publisher:Pragmatic Bookshelf
Imprint:Pragmatic Bookshelf
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:230
Release Date:30 April 2019
Weight:472g
Dimensions:236mm x 193mm
About The Author

Simon St. Laurent

Ivo Balbaert is a programming teacher and Crystal enthusiast. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and has worked for 25 years in the software industry as a developer and project manager in several companies. Now he combines teaching and consultancy with technical writing. He is particularly interested in elegant emerging languages for concurrency and distributed processing.Simon St. Laurent is a content manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on front-end web projects. He has been co-chair of the Fluent conference and of OSCON. He has authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, and Learning Rails 3, XML: A Primer, and Cookies. You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.

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