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Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby

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197 points onnnon | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 18:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source

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andrewstuart[dead post] ◴[08 Jul 25 21:13 UTC] No.44504131[source]▶

>>44502463 (OP) #

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davetron5000 ◴[08 Jul 25 21:23 UTC] No.44504182[source]▶

I like Ruby! Ruby has types. They just aren't enforced by a compiler.

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1. gavmor ◴[08 Jul 25 21:29 UTC] No.44504219[source]▶

Well, yeah, then what's the point?

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2. davetron5000 ◴[08 Jul 25 21:39 UTC] No.44504291[source]▶

>>44504219 (TP) #

I'm OK not using a compiler. Used one for years and am good on that for now. I like writing Ruby.

3. Lio ◴[09 Jul 25 09:56 UTC] No.44508050[source]▶

>>44504219 (TP) #

You can use a static analysis tool to check Ruby types ahead of time (still not a compiler) or provide information for tooling.

Alternatively you use them at runtime to check the correctness of data, which I don't think you can usually do with say Typescript where the typing information is for the most part compiled away[1].

1. I may be out of date on this but when I last looked at runtimes that could take Typescript directly they just threw the typing away. You just didn't need to use the tsc compiler first.