Comment by solatic

Merge with Crystal meaning, recognize that both projects have more in common from a language and culture perspective than they are different, get the committers and steering folk to talk together, collaborate together, combine the work. Think for example how Python has a great C FFI, you have a highly dynamic Python layer that can sit on top of C code for optimized hotpath code. Now imagine you instead have a highly dynamic Ruby layer with great integration with a Crystal layer for optimized hotpath code, where because the Ruby and Crystal folks are working together, everything is a first class citizen, all the code is in the same language family, using the same build toolchain, packaging toolchain, etc. Write standard Crystal libraries for compiling to native mobile platforms and write Rails-style views in Ruby for mobile app views, for example.