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LLMs are already a powerful tool for serious math researchers, just not at the level of "fire and forget", where they would completely replace mathematicians.


What on earth are you talking about?


> The biggest thing holding Ruby back is lack of gradual typing imo.

There is: https://sorbet.org/


I've used Sorbet a lot but don't really count it. I understand why others would but I find the type system is extremely shallow and limited and the overhead it adds to development (and even performance) is substantial.

Also Ruby has RBS now which is not inline and... much maligned to say the least. I think the entire ecosystem is at a crossroads rn wrt typed Ruby


And also RBS-inline if you want Jsdoc style typing


Wow I hadn't seen this before. Pretty neat, thanks. Hope this project really takes off and gains more support


No worries, I also think it deserves a bit more highlight, especially to those who are against having rbs as separate file and to those who despise the Sorbet DSL in Ruby. The plan with Rbs-inline is to merge with rbs-gem so it will come included in Rbs!


Kiro in Finnish means "a curse".


More modern would be Kirous.


Constraints create games.


Well... not everybody uses github, and not every task in Jira is about code in version control


Also: NASA used to use Common Lisp before


"Lisping at the JPL" is one of my favourite stories (all-time favourite, not just computery favourite).

https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

> Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem. The story of the Remote Agent bug is an interesting one in and of itself.


If you haven't heard it before, i'd recommend checking out this podcast episode - it's fantastic. https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/


I've heard it and I agree! Thanks for the re-up. Might give it a listen again :)


Yep.

Some context from the blog post: > I turned to service apps this winter: doordash, instacart, uber eats. Their signup systems were incompatible with my full, legal, one-letter last name, and it took about 50 hours on the phone with doordash support in Malaysia and the background check provider in India to eventually get cleared to drive them. I was not able to get through on the other apps.

For sure the impact is not just limited to service apps.


If some piece of crap HR software won’t accept it, no one is going to chase you down to debug it. You’ll just end up in the no pile


> Of course, Figma‑ or Gmail‑class apps still benefit from heavy client logic, so the emerging pattern is “HTML by default, JS only where it buys you something.” Think islands, not full SPAs.

Figma is written in C++ to webasm.


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