It doesn't come as a shock but more of a sigh - there's always one. 90% of devs I know use macs. Of them, basically 100% use homebrew. So for 90% of developers, installing crystal is as easy as I said. So the criticism that it's hard to install is, for the most part, invalid.

Of course the build-everything-from-scratch gentoo linux crowd is going to have a harder time but isn't that part of the masochistic appeal?

I mean, all well and good if the only package manager you've ever heard of on macOS is Homebrew, but there are others _and_ Homebrew is of questionable enough quality/has made enough questionable decisions (especially with the last major upgrade) that many people are justified in abandoning or not using it in the first place.

And that's beside the fact that 1) outside of your bubble, more devs use Windows than any other OS, 2) the person who wrote this article isn't even a software engineer, and 3) the tests weren't even run on macOS.