Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM

As someone familiar with Rust who has been interested in Erlang/Elixir, but hasn't taken the plunge, this could offer an really nice compromise for helping to learn without necessarily needing to start from scratch. It definitely seems worth keeping an eye on! Also, as an aside, I have to say that I'm a big fan of the proliferation of educational documentation written using the mdbook format. Since the compiler is written in Rust, I'd imagine that's where the author drew…

I'm really impressed by the syntax. I have yet to find a piece of syntax I wouldn't like. Labelled arguments for example are delightful: pub fn replace( in string: String, each pattern: String, with replacement: String, ) { // The variables `string`, `pattern`, and `replacement` are in scope here } replace(in: "A,B,C", each: ",", with: " ")

Coming from Elixir, I gave Gleam a try for a couple of days over the holidays. Reasons I decided not to pursue: - No ad-hoc polymorphism (apart from function overloading IIRC) means no standard way of defining how things work. There are not many conventions yet in place so you won’t know if your library supports eg JSON deserialization for its types - Coupled with a lack of macros, this means you have to implement even most basic functionality like…

If you like Erlang or Elixir, you will love Gleam.