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		erokar on July 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and ob... I suspect Rails the framework is as much to blame here as Ruby, OOP or dynamic typing. The siren song of static typing is loud today. Robert Smallshire has given convincing -- and even evidence based -- arguments that it increases development time while catching only a very small percentage of bugs: http://vimeo.com/74354480

Rapzid on July 2, 2014 [–]

Possibly but.. Having had to dig into the Chef client code base way too often.. Large ruby code bases can be a special kind of hell.

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