Agreed. I saw the announcement and had an inkling of the excitement I got the first time I tried Crystal, years ago. I remembered how exciting new languages were to learn, and putz around with.

Then I remembered I could open [coding agent of choice] and it'd nearly oneshot whatever I would want to try in Crystal. I got a little disheartened.

Some languages for me were never meant to be 'used in production', but were a creative & learning space instead.

You can still write code. I do it every day, even for work.