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It definitely a scary proposition. But it's worth mentioning that two of the world's biggest money moving platforms (Stripe and Shopify) are written in ruby.
by quadrature 5y ago
It definitely a scary proposition. But it's worth mentioning that two of the world's biggest money moving platforms (Stripe and Shopify) are written in ruby.
- valenterry 5y agoStripe decided to write a type checker for it though, probably for good reasons: https://sorbet.org/ https://sorbet.org/
- quadrature 5y agoYup, also being used at Shopify. Types are awesome, but these companies got very far by betting big on the productivity of ruby before this became a concern.
- valenterry 5y agoNot claiming that ruby isn't productive, but I could as well rephrase that into "these companies got very far despite the lack of productivity of ruby before this became a concern". It's not really giving any new insight.
- judofyr 5y agoIt should be mentioned that their reasons were mainly developer convenience/productivity, and not “correctness”. I think people severely overrate the value of the language when it comes to avoiding bugs. We already know how to minimize bugs: Extensive testing regimes (automated, manual, or both) and a general focus on correctness over “shipping on an artificial deadline”.
- nradov 5y agoIronically, advocates of dynamic typing often claim that it improves developer convenience and productivity.
- karmakaze 5y agoYou can have something that aids convenience/productivity and not correctness. You can also have something that aids correctness that increases developer convenience/productivity. I treat static typing as the latter. Edit: Btw, the github.com/sorbet/sorbet project is really well run and surprisingly easy to get into. I've been drafting PRs. C++ is not nearly as rough as I remember from decades ago.