[garbthetill]

Im on the same boat and this is coming from someone who loves the beam thanks to elixir, I think the marketing of the lang threw me of a bit. But I might give it a try this week, as im feeling a bit burnt out with elixir

earlier this week I was thinking why aren't there more languages around the actor model and completely forgot gleam exists

[scuff3d]

Gleam is cool. I absolutely love that it's statically typed (dynamic typing is one of the things that pushes me away from Elixir), and the core of the language is very well designed. I just hate how small it is. I shouldn't need to bring in an external dependency for friggin file i/o.

And I know the common argument is that's it due to the fact you can target either the BEAM or a web browser, but those arguments don't fly. The default target is the BEAM, the standard library can support that and use external packages for the browser.