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Re:Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale by vinceguidry on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:16PM (#25166729)
> drop into an irb in a running process

This is a thing?

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Re:Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale by zeckalpha on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:00PM (#25167309)
It also is a thing in most other languages, including C, Python, Java, Erlang, ...
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Re:Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale by vinceguidry on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:57PM (#25172334)
I'm not so sure. You can certainly attach a debugger to any running process. But that's not what parent was suggesting. He was saying anyone could attach a REPL. That's a totally different animal.

It's your own dumb fault if you expose the web-console or similar on production.

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