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>In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types. I've definitely ran into that al
by nijave 4mo ago
>In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types.
I've definitely ran into that although much less common at places with good test discipline.
I think the related and often conflated problem is errors caught by compilers which you don't hit til runtime in Ruby/Python without good test coverage. For example, referencing an undefined variable