That last one that hit HN frontpage was 16 days ago [1], and apart from my submission for 1.6 release which barely hit the frontpage, the next discussion on Crystal was September.

Compared to the HN darling, Rust. Crystal is hardly active.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Took me about 5 minutes to write a TCP echo server. I think only Ruby Async::IO is close to that easy.

It's probably just consequence of some person trying really hard to promote the language these days, rather than a divine intervention.