Community

There are so many ways to get involved in Crystal. Here’s a list of our main communication channels and resources.

Discuss

Crystal forum

The place for general discussions. Ask for help, share your project, or anything else Crystal.

Issue tracker

Reports bugs and talk about enhancements.

r/crystal_programming

The subreddit is a good place to share your work and talk about Crystal in a wider community.

crystal-lang

Ask for help on StackOverflow, or help other people – learning & sharing all the way through.

Chat

IRC: #crystal-lang (web, logs)

The official IRC channel at Libera Chat.

Matrix: #crystal-lang_crystal:gitter.im (web)

The official chat room at Matrix (previously Gitter).

Crystal Discord

The Discord server is community operated and has many channels for topics around Crystal.

Localized Telegram groups

News

Crystal Blog (feed)

Release announcements, use cases, features and other news from the Crystal team.

@CrystalLanguage
@CrystalLanguage

Get news and engage in discussions on Mastodon and Twitter.
Be sure to mention us in your toots and tweets!

Crystal [ANN]

Announcements of new projects, blog posts, version updates or any other Crystal work.

Meet the Team

Crystal Ecosystem

The Crystal ecosystem is backed by libraries called shards; many are available as Open Source software. Dependencies are managed by the eponymous program shards which is included in most Crystal distributions. Since shards is a decentralized dependency system and there is no central registry. Instead, there are indices which allow you discover shards.