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submitted 6 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/ruby@programming.dev

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I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n:

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[–] HParker@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Very cool that Ruby can get that much faster with relatively small changes. Even just the implicit return + array allocation tip is a useful one on its own.