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Types will win in the end (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Importance of TypeScript in Ruby

The lack of types in Ruby is really keen to the prototyping and I think Stripe is kind of baked. The biggest motivating factor for us was just at the time, you know, we're getting up to the place where we had hundreds of developers. And even if we were building new code, it was hard to make sense of it all. It's interesting hearing that because I guess being around long enough, I remember when people would be so excited to work in Ruby on their day job. But we're so far past that point, plus we're at a point where people switch jobs and orgs so much.

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