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B4X vs Crystal (programming language)

A side-by-side look at B4X and Crystal (programming language). For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

B4X

B4X

Development

B4X is a cross-platform development tool that allows developers to write apps in Basic language and deploy to Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi. It provides a simple IDE and powerful frameworks for building GUI, accessing device features, remote communications, databases, etc.

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Crystal (programming language)

Crystal (programming language)

Development

Crystal is a compiled, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language with a syntax similar to Ruby. It has static type checking, bindings to C libraries, and claims to have performance comparable to statically typed languages like C++ and Go.

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