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[COINTELBRO]

I like typescript for the much of the same reasons I like unit testing, it serves as executable documentation and applies a certain pressure during implementation that can result in better-designed code – and they’re both more likely to have that effect if they’re factors from the beginning; there are fairly steep up-front costs if you’re introducing them to an existing, undisciplined project

@spinnylights

Speaking of REPL-based editing, you might already be aware but just in case, Pry’s edit command lets you open up your editor mid-session and edit-then-run the Pry input buffer (just edit), a source file (edit [FILENAME].rb [-l [LINENO]], edit CLASS[#METHOD], edit -m for the current method execution is within), or a tempfile (edit -t), and you can add the -p flag if you want to just do a monkey-patch for the current run instead of actually changing the source code on disc. I think all together it’s like, one of my favorite features in any debugger probably.

gaah i wish i was still working with ruby during my day job

i obviously can’t speak for everyone but i love your posts in this thread, your knowledge of this stuff is broad and deep and you have a really pleasant disposition!

[spinnylights]

@COINTELBRO

I like typescript for the much of the same reasons I like unit testing, it serves as executable documentation and applies a certain pressure during implementation that can result in better-designed code – and they’re both more likely to have that effect if they’re factors from the beginning; there are fairly steep up-front costs if you’re introducing them to an existing, undisciplined project

That makes sense! I think of unit testing in a dynamic language as accomplishing a lot of the same things as static typing from a certain angle; one argument I can think of in favor of dynamic typing is that it’s often nice to have unit tests even in a statically-typed codebase. In a language that has a really pleasantly-designed static type system, though, I do find as you say that it can encourage you to really think through the design issues carefully as you go in a way that can be nicely guided by the type system (I like that about both C++ and Haskell). It’s good to know that you’ve had experiences like that with TypeScript as well.

@COINTELBRO

gaah i wish i was still working with ruby during my day job

Yeah it’s really sad to me that it’s not as favored in the web dev world as it used to be! I know it’s still around in places and it seems like Rails has a resurgence in popularity every so often when enough people feel sick of the new status quo , but still I don’t know if it will ever be like it was back in 2008 or whatever. I never felt like I heard reasons I thought were especially good from people to abandon Ruby in that space either which is kind of disheartening to me.

@COINTELBRO

i obviously can’t speak for everyone but i love your posts in this thread, your knowledge of this stuff is broad and deep and you have a really pleasant disposition!

Aww thank you ^^ That’s reassuring—maybe I’m just worrying too much. I’ve very much enjoyed your posts in this thread as well, it’s really neat to hear your perspective!