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notpachetyesterday at 4:26 PM4 repliesview on HN

Why would anyone still build in dynamically typed languages in 2026? Why relinquish the crystal clear signals that static typing is able to provide to the LLM?


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MitziMotoyesterday at 6:25 PM

You static typed evangelists have lost your damn minds. You seem to have completely misunderstood what this library even is because you have some primal urge to boast static typing at every chance.

You can build high quality software with dynamically typed languages, and Ruby is an absolute dream to read and write.

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lackoftacticsyesterday at 6:13 PM

Even as rails dev, I am seeing that you might be right. It’s really hard to find specific pros nowadays that Ruby brings to the table. All that talk about conventions over configurations and vast presence of Rails in weights is fun, but if writing speed isn’t an issue anymore, then Ruby on Rails has serious problems with larger codebases

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taylorlapeyreyesterday at 4:30 PM

Well, LLMs have an obscene amount of context built into their weights about Ruby on Rails, and can work within it extremely quickly.

jimbokunyesterday at 4:27 PM

This is not a tool for using LLMs to write Ruby code.

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