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I've been having a lot of fun building my own programming language [1]. Getting to the point where you can write programs in your own language was surprisingly easy. The language, …

A Ruby-inspired typed programming language called Sapphire: https://github.com/sapphire-project/sapphire I was reading the fantastic Crafting Interpreters book, and been wondering …

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> Four hundred and sixty books is not a scale problem. Knowing when to delete working code is not something an AI can decide for you. This is such a key thing I remind myself when …

Sorbet now supports inline RBS signatures, which I find a lot more readable. If you use VS code with Ruby LSP, the syntax highlighting is pretty great for the signatures too. https…

I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just has the features of Pocket that I was using. https://bukmark.me/

Wouldn't that be too similar to NoMethodError? I recently came across the idiom in Smalltalk, where you would call subclassResponsibility: someMethod: self subclassResponsibility I…

That's from 6 years ago. Shopify has used Rails' main branch since 2019. https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails

Yes, you can with irb:debug, which you can enter by typing debug one you're inside a binding.irb session.

While this was true for a long time, Ruby's built in irb and debug gems have improved dramatically in the past couple of years. To the point that I've switched to them from pry+bye…

There are plans to introduce type system into Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...

> type mismatch errors at runtime that could have been caught at compile time It's still early, but there are plans to introduce a type system for Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/b…