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Re:Rails API is coming to Rails 5 by beat on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:53PM (#9415355)
Same problem, though. Ruby's dynamic typing comes with some wonderful advantages (yay metaprogramming!) but some pretty bad disadvantages as well.
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Re:Rails API is coming to Rails 5 by grandalf on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:24PM (#9417542)
Definitely. I like things like contracts and optional type annotations very much. Some code is just hard to understand without those kinds of things, which leads to bugs.
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