Comment by gejose
1 year ago
We use sorbet pretty extensively. Overall it's been a net positive, but if you're coming from something like typescript, IMO it's far, far behind in terms of usability.
You can get pretty good value from things like intellisense in your editor, knowing that the constant you're referencing or method you're calling exists etc, but most libraries have no typings in sorbet-typed (beyond `T.untyped`).
The last post on Sorbet's blog was from 2022 https://sorbet.org/blog/, so I'm not sure how actively it's being developed. (compare that to typescript where you have a post every month https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/)
AFAIU sorbet is still being developed actively enough at Stripe, but I think there's also ongoing work at Shopify to integrate the Prism parser APIs which will be available in Ruby 3.4 this December
https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet/network