We’re excited to announce that Sorbet is now open source and you can try it
today. Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. It scales to
codebases with millions of lines of code and can be adopted incrementally.
We designed Sorbet to be used at Stripe, where the vast majority of our code is
written in Ruby. We’ve spent the last year and a half developing and adopting
Sorbet internally, and we’re finally confident that Sorbet is not just an
experimental, internal project—we’re ready to share Sorbet with the entire Ruby
community. In fact, we’ve had more than 30 companies beta test Sorbet and
provide feedback.
Today’s release includes:
- The core static type checker
- Tooling to create new Sorbet projects
- Tooling to gradually adopt Sorbet in existing projects
- A runtime DSL for writing type annotations
- A central repository for sharing type definitions for Ruby gems
… and much more. We’re excited for you to play around with Sorbet, integrate
it into your codebases, and share your feedback. We’ve received immeasurable
value from the Ruby community already: this is our way of giving back.
Getting started
We’ve put together a number of resources to help you get started with Sorbet:
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Adopting Sorbet: In just a few quick steps, get started using the Sorbet gem
to type check an existing codebase. -
Gradual Type Checking: Sorbet is a gradual type checker. What does that
mean, and how can we use it to our advantage? -
Docs: Check out the documentation to learn all about Sorbet’s features.
For a round-up of recent changes you can read State of Sorbet for Spring 2019.
And of course, feel free to browse the source on GitHub to learn how to build
Sorbet, read the source code, report bugs, and contribute fixes!
Community
We know that releasing an open-source project is the just the first step, and
we’re excited to continue building Sorbet with our community. Stripe is
committed to growing the Sorbet project as a robust part of the Ruby ecosystem.
Here’s how you can ask questions, report bugs, and share your experience
reports:
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Ask us questions on Stack Overflow: We’ll be actively monitoring Stack
Overflow questions with thesorbettag, where you can ask questions you have
while adopting Sorbet in your codebase. -
Chat with us on Slack: We’ve been using Slack to communicate with
collaborators and beta testers; you can join our community to chat with other
Sorbet users. -
Report issues on GitHub: Sorbet is still very young—if you find and can
reproduce bugs in Sorbet, please share them!
Acknowledgements
Sorbet is the product of a large community of supporters, and we’re deeply
appreciative for their work. You can see the complete list of contributors who
helped us in the process of open sourcing Sorbet. And of course, we’d also like
to thank the dozens of beta testers who braved the rough edges of Sorbet in its
early days. 🎉
