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It is Ruby done right if community would have bothered with performance.

I don't think it's really trying to compete with C, it's a much higher level language, just one that happens to be fast as well.

Its similarity with Ruby? It doesn't _feel_ like I would have to learn completely new paradigms

It's somewhat similar, but in Crystal you need to be explicit with types, and you'll likely miss 'send'.

Also Crystal has macros