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Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

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333 points steveklabnik | 3 comments | 26 Aug 25 08:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gurgeous ◴[27 Aug 25 03:10 UTC] No.45035053[source]▶
I am so excited about this!! Ruby tooling is already pretty good, but we can do better. I will try to contribute. Now we just need types
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dismalaf ◴[27 Aug 25 03:26 UTC] No.45035149[source]▶
Please no types... They're worse than pointless for a dynamically typed language.
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seabrookmx ◴[27 Aug 25 04:58 UTC] No.45035612[source]▶
Many smart engineers (including Guido) disagree with you, and have added static types to Python, Javascript, Dart, Elixir, Hack and surely some I'm forgetting.
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1. dismalaf ◴[27 Aug 25 14:06 UTC] No.45039925[source]▶
I use statically typed languages. There's benefits.

There's also benefits to dynamically typed languages, namely runtime metaprogramming.

Dynamic typing + type annotations is the worst of both worlds for questionable benefit.

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2. seabrookmx ◴[31 Aug 25 16:45 UTC] No.45084608[source]▶
> the worst of both worlds

Agree to disagree!

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