Ruby: Where are we going? 2026 Edition

This is more of a self-reflection than a proper blog post. As someone who has spent the last five years working primarily with statically typed languages and who teaches RBS on Udemy and is writing a book about static typing in the new LLM-powered era, I have always had a complicated relationship with Ruby. Every time I came back to it, the lack of types drove me crazy. The only safety net available was the test suite. Hopefully, you can layer RBS or Sorbet on top, and I strongly believe you sho