Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

having spent a day experimenting with it, I don't think sorbet is ready for production. I think it has potential but there are a lot of open pitfalls that would need to be ironed out before I could recommend it

I was interested in it because retrofitting type systems onto untyped languages is an interesting problem, but compared to e.g. typescript it has a long way to go in terms of correctness

I am interested in stories on its ergonomics and how it helps people -- my only info right now is I've run it on a 6,000 line gem I wrote last year, it generated a ton of errors but did not identify any bugs

in contrast to when rust yells at me, it is almost always identifying an actual bug and so it feels like it's helping

to appease sorbet I've moved a bunch of code around, but it's purely refactoring, not changing behaviour, and I have not found any behaviour that needs fixing as a result of running it

that, by itself, is a really interesting ergonomic result to me: rust is extremely restrictive, but when it won't compile, I feel like I understand why ruby is incredibly forgiving, so I'm sure my codebase contains bugs, but everything sorbet is telling me about is noise

saying that, I'm only getting my codebase from `false` to `true` type checking, not `strict` or `strong` but the things it's complaining about at `true` are artificially restrictive already