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Ruby has types.

Whenever I google to see if people are enjoying Sorbet or RBS I find articles like this that basically say “no, no one seems to be enjoying this and it’s going nowhere” https://brandur.org/fragments/ruby-typing-2024

In my opinion RBS files are a horrible design decision and split the Ruby community between a typing system that people actually want to use (Sorbet) and a typing system we’ll tolerate because it’s official but a pain in the ass (RBS), leaving both ecosystems to whither. Sad :-(

In runtime. Basically you lose most of the benefits.

Before lightly using this argument I recommend using a language that really doesn't have types. The difference between getting your errors at runtime / compile time is much much smaller than the difference between those and not getting errors at all.

> Before lightly using this argument I recommend using a language that really doesn't have types.

I am curious now: which language doesn't have types but has a separate compile-time?

I don't know that having separate compile-time is relevant for the experience. But Forth, assembler, B and BCPL.

TCL also seems to have a compiler: https://www.tcl.tk/software/tclpro/compiler.html

Not just at runtime.

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