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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by erokar on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @07:38AM (#7976296)
I suspect Rails the framework is as much to blame here as Ruby, OOP or dynamic typing.

The siren song of static typing is loud today. Robert Smallshire has given convincing -- and even evidence based -- arguments that it increases development time while catching only a very small percentage of bugs:

http://vimeo.com/74354480

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by Rapzid on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @10:54AM (#7977305)
Possibly but.. Having had to dig into the Chef client code base way too often.. Large ruby code bases can be a special kind of hell.
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