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Types will win in the end (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Sorbet: A Cool Name

Sorbet is a type checker for Ruby. It's not being adopted by the core team, so it needs to be called type Ruby or something like that. Microsoft in general is just really good at building products for developers and evangelizing them. We're kind of fine with the way things work now. People who want to use what we've built are completely able to do so. And I actually think that even more traditional languages that don't have backwards compatibility with untyped programming language could benefit from this feature.

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