schonfinkel 2 days ago

And now with Gleam moving past version 1.0 last year, the BEAM also boasts a decent amount of "flavors" of functional programming. You can go with Erlang/OTP (the alien tech that has been battle tested for almost 30 years), Elixir for it's great webdev ecosystem, Gleam if you like an ML-like programming language on the BEAM. LFE is also another great option if need a BEAM-native LISP.

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agos 2 days ago

How I wish that Gleam had OTP!

Elixir is also getting some tooling love in the form of a new language server and some very much appreciated type checking

dimator 2 days ago

Forgive my ignorance, I was looking at this the other day, isn't this otp for gleam?

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

hazn 2 days ago

yes but i believe it is still in the ”beta” stage, as gleam is implementing the OTP by itself and not wrapping the erlang implementation.

you have to import the otp package in gleam to use the famous actor architecture