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.
Why would that be the case? Many models have knowledge cutoffs in this calendar year. Furthermore I’ve found that LLMs are generally pretty good at picking up new (or just obscure) languages as long as you have a few examples. As wide and varied as programming languages are, syntactically and ideologically they can only be so different.
Because LLMs make it that much faster to develop software, any potential advantage you may get from adopting a very niche language is overshadowed by the fact that you can't use it with an LLM. This makes it that much harder for your new language to gain traction. If your new language doesn't gain enough traction, it'll never end up in LLM datasets, so programmers are never going to pick it up.
I feel as though "facts" such as this are presented to me all the time on HN, but in my every day job I encounter devs creating piles of slop that even the most die-hard AI enthusiasts in my office can't stand and have started to push against.
I know, I know "they just don't know how to use LLMs the right way!!!", but all of the better engineers I know, the ones capable of quickly assessing the output of an LLM, tend to use LLMs much more sparingly in their code. Meanwhile the ones that never really understood software that well in the first place are the ones building agent-based Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately slow everyone down
If we can continue living in the this AI hallucination for 5 more years, I think the only people capable of producing anything of use or value will be devs that continued to devote some of their free time to coding in languages like Gleam, and continued to maintain and sharpen their ability to understand and reason about code.
You are overlooking a blind spot, that is increasingly becoming a weakness for devs. You assume that businesses care that their software actually works. It sounds crazy from the dev side but they really don't. As long as cash keeps hitting accounts the people in charge MBAs do not care how it gets there and the program to find that out only requires one simple unmistakable algo Money In - money out.
evidence
Spreadsheets. These DSL lite tools are almost universally known to be generally wrong and full of bugs. Yet, the world literally runs on them.
Lowest bidder outsourcing. Its well known that various low cost outsourcing produces non functional or failed projects or projects that limp along for years with nonstop bug stomping. Yet business is booming.
This only works in a very rich empire that is in the collapse/looting phase. Which we are in and will not change. See: History.