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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

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511 points mootrichard | 1 comments | 29 Jul 20 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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castwide ◴[30 Jul 20 01:52 UTC] No.23993524[source]▶
I'm still trying to make sense of this announcement. With a lack of type annotation in the Ruby core, I chose to build off YARD to make gradual type safety work. Now I don't know if there will be a standard that supports type safety or if I should continue down the path I'm already following. Help me, Ruby core developers. You're my only hope.

(edit: I should have explained that I'm talking about the type checking features I'm developing in Solargraph: https://solargraph.org/guides/type-checking)

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1. halostatue ◴[30 Jul 20 05:29 UTC] No.23994992[source]▶
Please don’t use YARD. As a documentation format, I find it noisy. As a documentation generator, it doesn’t support standard RDoc syntax (_intentionally_ so) that makes it completely useless.

I say this as someone who has written Ruby for almost twenty years. I will _never_ use a tool that depends on YARD document formatting, because I will never use YARD document formatting.