Just read Shopify’s latest update on Sorbet — they’ve added support for inline RBS comments, and it’s a game changer for type...

This blends the readability of RBS with the static type safety of Sorbet — and it’s already helping improve code clarity at scale (Shopify has 99% of its 75k Ruby files type-checked ).

Now you can write type signatures in a much cleaner, more Ruby-like way:

It’s still experimental, but definitely worth keeping an eye on — especially if you’re looking to gradually introduce types into a large Ruby codebase.

Enable it with –enable-experimental-rbs-comments and explore the benefits.

Kudos to the team behind Ruby LSP, Tapioca, and Spoom for pushing the Ruby tooling ecosystem forward!

RBS Support for Sorbet

Shopify introduces inline RBS comments for Sorbet, making Ruby type annotations more readable and maintainable. A great step forward for large-scale Ruby codebases using static typing.