The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Episode 278: 278: Introducing Sorbet: A Ruby Typechecker with Paul Tarjan


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Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby.

Links for this episode:

  • Why did Stripe choose to use Ruby for its backend language?
  • Sorbet
  • Sorbet Playground
  • RDL (research project for ruby typing)
  • Hack (typechecker for PHP)
  • MyPy (typechecker for Python)
  • TypeScript (typechecker for JavaScript)
  • Paul's Favorite Juggling Library
  • Video of Paul Juggling
  • Paul Tarjan on Twitter (@paultarjan)
  • Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  • Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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