Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby(sorbet.org)

52 points by jez 7 years ago | 3 comments

Great inspiring project. Hopefully, open source soon. FYI: sruby - that is (secure) ruby[1] - is an alternative ruby (subset) with an alternative (optional) type annotation syntax e.g. Sorbet's `sig {params(x: Integer).returns(String)}` becomes `sig Integer => String` or `sig [Integer] => [String]`.

Note: Since the sig is "yes, it's just (regular) ruby" code you can create an alias for types e.g. I = Integer, S = String and than use sig I=>S, for example.

[1]: https://github.com/s6ruby

localhostdotdev 7 years ago |

not sure why they don't release it, it's been a few years already

geraldbauer 7 years ago | |

You're right of course.

Here's the official explanation from the RubyKaigi Sorbet Talk Slide:

- Philosophy: Make experience great - Slowly expand private beta - Mix of small, medium, and large codebases - Once the experience is good for a batch, ship it - Date: Summer 2019

Source: https://sorbet.run/talks/RubyKaigi2019/#/45