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There is this recent trend of languages enforcing 2 space indentation and disallowing any ability to override. 2 space indentation makes determining block nesting hard for many (maybe most?) people, including me. My understanding is that the trend started as a way to skirt line length limitations in Python. I think it’s one of the dumbest trends in programming languages. Please stop.
Gleam is really interesting to me, because it's built on top of the BEAM runtime, but as far as I can tell, it does very little with the actor model that is the star attraction of BEAM/Erlang. There's a (non-built-in?) package that exposes some of the OTP and concurrency tools available, but it doesn't look widely used or recommended on the website. The linked recommends a talk that I hadn't seen before (and unfortun…
@external decorator: This escape hatch allows Gleam code to call functions defined in Erlang or Elixir modules. While it bypasses Gleam's type checks for the function call, it provides a powerful way to leverage the full capabilities of the existing OTP ecosystem.
I believe the biggest reason it's hard to replicate OTP fully and quickly is Gleam's type system (but I could be wrong).
Btw there is a reason behind the pink design for the language website
I like the whimsical website. Never attributed it to anything, but “we’re all having fun here”.
Gleam is really interesting to me, because it's built on top of the BEAM runtime, but as far as I can tell, it does very little with the actor model that is the star attraction of BEAM/Erlang. There's a (non-built-in?) package that exposes some of the OTP and concurrency tools available, but it doesn't look widely used or recommended on the website. The linked recommends a talk that I hadn't seen before (and unfortun…
I think Louis and the Gleam community are very serious about supporting OTP, but there are still open research questions around typing parts of OTP.
The parts of OTP that Gleam supports are still very useful, compatible with Erlang/Elixir, and very much used. And they have the benefit of being statically typed [1].
There's no embarrasement about Gleam's primary runtime being the BEAM, it's right there on the front page, above the fold! [2]
[1] https://github.com/bcpeinhardt/learn_otp_with_gleam [2] https://gleam.run/
Btw there is a reason behind the pink design for the language website
There is this recent trend of languages enforcing 2 space indentation and disallowing any ability to override. 2 space indentation makes determining block nesting hard for many (maybe most?) people, including me. My understanding is that the trend started as a way to skirt line length limitations in Python. I think it’s one of the dumbest trends in programming languages. Please stop.
I think Idea IDEs have that flexibility... Not sure.
> I'd often joke, "I love Rust, but what I really want is a simpler Haskell with a C-like syntax" or "I love Rust, but if it had a garbage collector, Rust would be my perfect language". OCaml is a simpler Haskell, but I don't think it has a C-like syntax. However, rescript[0], the JavaScript like syntax for OCaml based Hindley Milner typed language might actually fit well for small and personal projects. [0] https://…
Reason ( https://reasonml.github.io/ ) is the JS like syntax for OCaml. ReScript is a fork that explicitly removes the connection to OCaml and focuses on JavaScript output.