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After working in Typescript for 18 months I've moved onto a new Rails project and I miss type checking so much every single day. There are so many dumb bugs tha

After working in Typescript for 18 months I've moved onto a new Rails project and I miss type checking so much every single day. There are so many dumb bugs that have slipped their way into production that would have been caught by type checks and null checks. It's professionally embarrassing for the client to see this stuff that would have been stopped by better tools.

genuine_smiles 6y ago
Have you looked at Sorbet? https://sorbet.org/ https://sorbet.org/
- cageface 6y ago
  Yeah I tried using this on our current project but it couldn't really handle Rails + all the gems we're using. I think it's very difficult to retrofit types onto a codebase with deep roots in dynamic code.
  - mekster 6y ago
    Just hope ruby 3 would integrate static typing.