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muglug ◴[] No.23990520[source]
Can someone explain why the types cannot live in Ruby code itself (after an appropriate version bump)?

Python 3 incorporated types into the language itself, in a similar way (though non-reified) to PHP. This seems much easier to deal with than requiring two files (.rb and .rbs) to describe a single data structure.

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burke ◴[] No.23990918[source]
Because Matz won't let people add type annotations to the ruby grammar.
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jakearmitage ◴[] No.23991128[source]
Which is great.
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zeptonix ◴[] No.23991239[source]
Yeah, it is.

I'm having a really hard time understanding this "I need types forced down my throat" and "I like typing 3x as much as I would otherwise need to" and "yes, I want half my screen obscured by the types of everything I'm doing, not the actual code" and the "adding types now means bugs are impossible" mass cult hysteria that's running so rampant. Typing very occasionally prevents bugs that are generally easy to catch/fix or show up straight away when running an app. It's mostly a documentation system. And it slows development down.

Especially in Ruby which is such an elegant "programmer's language" I think it would just be silly.

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sparker72678 ◴[] No.23991394[source]
A-fucking-men.

In the course of my job I write Swift for iOS and Ruby for server APIs and our web-based UIs.

Type issues are about 0% of my Ruby bugs, but dealing with all the damn type requirements in Swift regularly takes dozens of minutes to track down when some weird esoteric error message pops up. And God help you if you try to use generics.

If you want strong typing, then good for you. Just pick a language that fits that mold.

So much of what I love about Ruby is what it doesn't make me do.

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djur ◴[] No.23993471[source]
You've never had a NoMethodError in Ruby?
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1. sparker72678 ◴[] No.23993960[source]
Sure, and I get compile time errors in Swift. Each last about 2-5 minutes.

The actual bugs I have to fix are nearly always business logic issues. Edge cases around 3rd party integrations, incomplete implementations, unintended side effects, etc.