From the article's introduction: > That’s right: static typing! A lot of people were worried when they heard that, which is understandable; in the Ruby communi

From the article's introduction: > That’s right: static typing! A lot of people were worried when they heard that, which is understandable; in the Ruby community we don’t get much exposure to static type systems, and they immediately make us think of languages like C and Java. The author then proceeds to explain why static typing in ruby would be much better than "Java-flavoured-Ruby", and how it would "go beyond the features of the static type systems you’ve used in the past".