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1. bnchrc+56[view] [source] 2025-12-13 17:46:50
>>tymsca+(OP)
Gleam is a beautiful language, and what I wish Elixir would become (re:typing).

For those that don't know its also built upon OTP, the erlang vm that makes concurrency and queues a trivial problem in my opinion.

Absolutely wonderful ecosystem.

I've been wanting to make Gleam my primary language, but I fear LLMs have frozen programming language advancement and adoption for anything past 2021.

But I am hopeful that Gleam has slid just under the closing door and LLMs will get up to speed on it fast.

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2. sbuttg+Ed[view] [source] 2025-12-13 18:39:58
>>bnchrc+56
> For those that don't know its also built upon OTP, the erlang vm

This isn't correct. It can compile to run on the BEAM: that is the Erlang VM. OTP isn't the Erlang VM; rather, "OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop [concurrent/distributed/fault tolerant] systems."

Gleam itself provides what I believe is a substantial subset of OTP support via a library: https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

Importantly: "Gleam has its own version of OTP which is type safe, but has a smaller feature set. [vs. Elixir, another BEAM language with OTP support]"

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