Ruby on (Guard)Rails

As someone who writes a lot of RoR and typescript at work, I find I’m generally happier and more satisfied after completing a ticket in typescript.

It seems counterintuitive because Ruby is generally more expressive and readable than JavaScript. In theory, Ruby should be the “happy” language. I think it really just comes down to confidence that what I’ve written will work properly at runtime. There’s always a nagging paranoia with Ruby that I’ve missed adding a safe nav operator or forgotten an .is_a? somewhere, and those mistakes have led to embarrassing production issues in the past.

Typescript is far from perfect, but I experience a lot less bugs when writing code in it.