[eudamoniac]

I worked with Rails a lot. In my experience, every rails dev who is fanatical about how much they love Rails, also has little to no experience with strong types. Of the ones who later try types, they no longer love Rails. Personally I quit Rails entirely because of lack of types. No, RBS and Sorbet are not even close to good enough.

Also, every enterprise rails app I've seen (seven, to date) has been really poorly written/architected in a way that other backends just weren't. Even the fairly new ones felt like legacy code already.

[mike_ivanov]

Ruby is a strongly typed language. I think you are confusing strong typing with static typing.

[goatlover]

And by contrast, C is static but weakly typed.

[schlch]

I still really like rails. It’s really fun until your codebase reaches a certain size. At that point you better have a large suite of test which becomes a problem of it self because the tests will take forever to complete.

I tried sorbet a couple of times and totally get why it’s useful but imo it’s not just lacking (e.g. compared with what can be done with TS or even a simple type system like golang) but it also removes all the fun parts of ruby / rails.

[eudamoniac]

Right, the test culture is very silly to me. Thousands of tests and long CI times, basically just doing a poor invention of a compiler. Dynamic types are so much extra work.