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Dmitry here, from Stripe. One of founding members of Sorbet(though I no longer work on it anymore). Story that Ufuk shares is common. We saw this process repeat in many companies, …

(One of core devs on Sorbet) Agreed. But don't read too much in RBS details yet. RBI is currently very early and will need to change substantially learning from experience of actua…

This is true, we're part of a single working group that's working on types for Ruby3. https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1119130004313350144 has some detail

We only use it at build time, as for a user, it should be invisible for you

Companies that use Rails have also started working on https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails , worth checking out!

Yes, join the slack! While Stripe doesn't run rails all other companies in private beta did!

A lot of great insight in this comment. The only difference is that Stipe has foresaw the problems and has been working on productivity for quite a while, with a dedicated group of…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697581

We're collaborating with @yukihiro_matz, @mametter, @soutaro and Jeff Forster to make sure that types are not disruptive to Ruby. Thus, types are optional. The intention is to deli…

We're currently looking for beta users! Reach out to us at sorbet@stripe.com. If you describe your team&codebase in the email, it will help us figure out what cohort to include you…

Indeed Sorbet does have literal types for strings and Ruby symbols. We're still figuring out the details and converging on a common type system for Ruby3, but we've found them supe…

> A question I didn't get to ask while there is -- will there be some sort of type sharing system introduced? Yes. This was one of goals of our talks. We wanted implementors of typ…

Hi. I'm one of main developers of Dotty. I've gave answers to similar concerns here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/44um2l/fear_un...

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/dotty-scala-bootstraps has some more details.