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by dismalaf 299 days ago
It's kind of annoying that static type introspection has become the norm for language servers because live environments are so much better. With Ruby you have the REPL and there have been IDEs and tools that allow runtime reflection which is just so much better (think Lisp or Smalltalk). LSPs are nice for static languages but compared to live environments they're a step down...