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quechimba on Nov 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The type system is a programmer's best friend

Started a Ruby project using Sorbet and I'm refactoring with confidence now. It's such a huge help. The project is about 9000 lines of Ruby by now and I don't think I would have been able to get this far without static type checking

Jach on Nov 5, 2022 [–]

The second edition of the book Refactoring was written to use JavaScript instead of Java in part to dispel the myth that you can't confidently refactor without static types.

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