278: Introducing Sorbet: A Ruby Typechecker with Paul Tarjan

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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