typeprof VS error_highlight

Compare typeprof vs error_highlight and see what are their differences.

typeprof

An experimental type-level Ruby interpreter for testing and understanding Ruby code (by ruby)

error_highlight

The gem enhances Exception#message by adding a short explanation where the exception is raised (by ruby)
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typeprof error_highlight
5 1
709 145
1.1% 1.4%
6.4 4.9
about 1 month ago 2 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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typeprof

Posts with mentions or reviews of typeprof. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

error_highlight

Posts with mentions or reviews of error_highlight. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
  • Ruby 3.1.0 Preview 1 released with new experimental JIT
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2021
    Enhanced error log messages are always welcome on the ground :)

    Reminded me of the work done in elm to explicitly improve their error reporting by deeply considering the user experience [1]

    Repo for the newly included error_highlight gem is interesting [2], anyone have more background on this ?

    1. Elm “the perfect big report”

    https://elm-lang.org/news/the-perfect-bug-report

    2. Error_highlight gem repo: https://github.com/ruby/error_highlight

What are some alternatives?

When comparing typeprof and error_highlight you can also consider the following projects:

steep - Static type checker for Ruby

yjit - Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby

rbs - Type Signature for Ruby

Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

gem_rbs_collection - A collection of RBS for gems.

rubykaigi-2021

ruby - The Ruby Programming Language

DefinitelyTyped - The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.

django-sockpuppet - Build reactive applications with the django tooling you already know and love.

ruby-next - Ruby Next makes modern Ruby code run in older versions and alternative implementations

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser