Gleam

“I've been playing with running Gleam's official WASM compiler on Cloudflare's sandboxes and it's pretty cool what you can do.”

“having failsafe actor based erlang backend + ssr + rich strongly typed reactive frontend all in one language is really cool”

“it has been very pleasant experience. It takes longer to write but it is much shorter, easier to follow”

“while you don't get string interpolation in the way you might get in other languages you can go pretty far with the <> syntax”

“still no string interpolation in a language ostensibly intended for building user interfaces”

“gleam scratches the itch but I can't justify writing code that would impossible to hire for”

“The code can be quite repetitive sometimes, but as long as the compiler ensures everything is in place, it works quite well.”

“the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong, Claude gives me much better results”

“I think Gleam is the ideal implementation on top of the BEAM but it does just seem pretty immature.”

“the compiler checks the exhaustiveness of your pattern matches against the type of the data you're matching against”

“Gleam felt familiar enough, due to some Rust-isms, to allow me to focus more on the concepts rather than the syntax”

“I'm used to languages like Elm or Gleam in which a LSP error means there is an actual problem with your code”

“one local variable name and potentially an external label that callers can use to annotate themselves”

“it would be a compiled language that (probably) would go the Gleam route and compile to JS and some other language”

“There is! From my understanding, Check out the gleam discord server and communities around it.”

“If you like Erlang, Elixir, and Elm/Haskell, then Gleam + Lustre (which is TEA) is a pretty great fit.”

“people love gleam because it gives them a bit more expressiveness in the type system from what I've heard”

“A language where the compiler has already verified structural correctness before the diff reaches your screen”

“most operations are covered in gleam, at least I've very rarely needed to FFI into Erlang”

“Gleam eliminates a ton of errors automatically so my reviews are focused on mostly business logic”

“It's a brilliant design that incorporates just enough metaprogramming magic to make it ergonomic.”

“this seems like trying to abstract away the difference between taking a boat to Europe or a plane”

“In Gleam, you first have to declare the function type and THEN you can call the function directly.”

“If it's "a serious statically typed language on the BEAM," then the absence is a real limitation, not bikeshedding.”

“Personally I've felt that the JS target is a big plus and hasn't detracted from Gleam.”

“No ad-hoc polymorphism (apart from function overloading IIRC) means no standard way of defining how things work.”

“Gleam provides a better and elegant syntax for those who are not familiar with Erlang or functional programming languages”

“I've had a chance to use Gleam for a few small components in production and I'm loving it.”

“I've had a great time writing Gleam so far, and if you're looking for something new to experiment with, I highly recommend giving it a try.”

“Gleam doesn't yet support all OTP system messages, so some OTP debugging messages are discarded by Gleam.”

“I suspect this has to do with the static typing, incredible language tooling, and small surface area of the language.”

“Gleam looks lovely and IMO is the most readable language that runs on the BEAM VM.”

“When Gleam doesn't have Rust's derivation, it leaves for a future where this is solved even better.”

“I like Gleam, but I am somewhat annoyed by the fact, that I don't have the full functional freedom in calling recursive (inner) functions wherever I want.”

“Gleam’s primary design constraint is interop with Erlang code, so using these libraries is straightforward and commonplace.”

“I find it to be a lovely little language, but having to essentially write every type three times”

“What irritates me the most is the lack of if/else or guards or some kind of dedicated case-distinction on booleans.”

“a runtime that has exhaustively analyzed a ton of async scenarios and cover them very well”

“Gleam is very much worth checking out. It's syntax is very nice and natural feeling.”

“Really beautiful language design imo. Does a great job avoiding the typelevel brainfuck problem I have with Haskell.”