I like strong typing as well, and worked with a strongly typed language for years before Ruby.
Then I did Ruby+Rails fulltime for 9 years. Just recently moved on.
With Ruby, I'd have to write hundreds of
edge-case unit-tests just to cover stuff that,
with Rust is enforced compile-time for me.
Never a problem for me.
It was one of my major concerns about Ruby, prior to starting out. But like... it just wasn't a problem.
It turns out that we just don't pass the wrong kind of thing to the other thing very often, or at least I and my teams did not. It certainly helps if you follow some sane programming practices. Using well-named keyword arguments and identifiers, for example.
# bad. wtf is input?
def grant_admin_privileges(input)
end
# you would have to be a psychopath to pass this
# anything but a User object
def grant_admin_privileges(user:)
end
Of course, this
can be a major problem if you're dealing with unfamiliar or poorly written code. In which case, yeah, that sucks. I know that many will scoff at the old-timey practice of "use good names" in lieu of actual language-level typing enforcement, and that "just use a little discipline!" has long been the excuse of people defending bad languages and tools. But a little discipline in Ruby goes
such a long way, moreso than in any language I have ever used.
With Ruby, I'd have to write hundreds of edge-case unit-tests
just to cover stuff that, with Rust is enforced compile-time for me.
Well, you do need test coverage with Ruby. But you do anyway in any language for "real" work, soooooo.
I strongly dispute that you need extra tests for "edge cases" because of dynamic typing. Something is deeply wrong if we are coding defensive methods that handle lots of different types of inputs and do lots of duck typing checks or etc. to defend themselves against type-related edge cases.
(yes, I know guard, fancy runners with pattern matching etc).
Yeaaaaaah. Rails tests hit the database by default, which is good and bad, but it is inarguably slowwww. I don't find pure Ruby code to be slow to test.
The last reason, for me, is editor/IDE integration
Yes. I still miss feeling like some kind of god-level being with C#, Visual Studio, and Resharper. I liked the Ruby REPL which offset that largely in terms of coding productivity but was certainly not a direct replacement.
But stepping through a stack in a rails project is a nightmare
Yeah. I always wanted a version of the pry 'next' method that was basically like, "step to the next line of code
but skip all framework and Ruby core code"