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Types will win in the end (Interview)

Jul 13, 2023

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Introduction

3min

How to Use Sentry to Detect Performance Issues

5min

The Importance of TypeScript in Ruby

4min

How to Be a Successful Developer at Stripe

5min

How Sorbet Is Making Developers More Productive

2min

Ruby: A Language for Type Checking

3min

The Trade-Offs of Metaprogramming in Ruby

5min

Ruby Official Types: A Divisive Implementation

2min

The State of Typing in Ruby

2min

10.

The Importance of Having Type Annotations in Ruby Code

5min

11.

The Importance of Ruby Gems in the Open Source Community

2min

12.

Sorbet: A Cool Name

6min

13.

TypeScript and Active Record Base

5min

14.

How to Use Sorbet With RBI Files

5min

15.

How to Adopt Sorbet for Your App

3min

16.

How to Track Adoption of Sorbet

2min

17.

Types Will Win in the End

3min

18.

The Cognitive Overload of Sorbet

3min

19.

The State of Enterprise Linux

2min

This week we’re talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe’s entire Ruby codebase. As of May of 2022 Stripe’s codebase was over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files. If you think you have a bigger Ruby codebase, Jake is down to go byte-for-byte to see who wins. Jake shares tons of wisdom and more importantly he shares why he thinks types will win in the end.

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