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Capacitor by Ionic vs Crystal (programming language)

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

Capacitor by Ionic

Capacitor by Ionic

Development

Capacitor is a cross-platform app runtime that allows developers to build web apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and deploy them to native iOS, Android and web. It includes a rich set of web APIs and allows wrapping web code into native code using plugins.

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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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