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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