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I think Ruby has at this point caught up to modern languages on everything except typing. Unfortunately the typing story is so poor that it still makes Ruby an incredibly difficult choice to justify in 2023.

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Well, in ruby everything is an object that is a member of some class. Those classes have specific properties that only allow for specific methods to be applied on them. Ie, integers are members of the numeric::integer class, and if you want to use that integer as part of a string in output, you do have to convert it to a string first using a method defined as such.

So, what exactly do you see as missing in ruby's typing?

For what use-case? Because I've been developing in ruby for over 10 years now and it has been the optimal choice for a ton of companies I've worked for. The lack of static typing is a feature for a lot of people.

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