vinceguidry 6 months ago

Ruby has static type system built into the language.

https://github.com/ruby/rbs

There are others you can use if you like.

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  • wiseowise 6 months ago

    Unusable mess.

    Ruby should take lessons from Python and TS on how to make proper gradual typing.

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    • Lio 6 months ago

      I think a much better way forward is proposed by Jake Zimmerman[1] of the Sorbet team. That is to allow the runtime to parse RBS inline format comments.

      That retains Sorbet’s fast static checker and its runtime checks which Typescript compiled to JS lacks.

      1. https://blog.jez.io/history-of-sorbet-syntax/

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    • frou_dh 6 months ago

      It should stay true to itself and not do it at all.

      Sigh - all languages needn't converge into Grey Goo.

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  • burnt-resistor 6 months ago

    steep and rbs don't work so well and are the wrong approach. sorbet is also the wrong approach but it works better. The Python 2 -> 3 way would've been a better way to do it but Matz chose an unwise way (separate files) that doomed it combined with a failure to type all the things and make it work. Oh, and very few Ruby gems are cryptographically signed and so most code is mostly untrustworthy. Making important things optional makes them unused and essentially worthless.

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    • vinceguidry 6 months ago

      All of these problems are worse in javascript.

      > a failure to type all the things and make it work

      Everything is typed in Ruby.

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