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0 pointscempaka1y ago0 comments

I wish I could reach for Kotlin as a kind of "Ruby with typing out of the box" but the lack of a good REPL is a real dealbreaker.

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Alifatisk1y ago

You'll get Ruby with typings soon when rbs-inline is finalized

cempakaOP1y ago

Is that really something that's been slated to be added to the language proper? I attended RubyConf and in his keynote Matz seemed pretty opposed to adding types to Ruby source, and argued in favor of automatic typing instead.

petre1y ago

You can always use Crystal or Dart if you want builtin types. I like Ruby the way it is an trust Matz with his language design decisions.

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Sinjo1y ago

Ooh, I hadn't heard of rbs-inline before. I was always a bit put off by the type definitions having to live in separate files.

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