Agreed. BEAM is absolutely fantastic, and having other languages to be able to leverage its power can only be a good thing. I have high hopes for Alpaca person

Agreed. BEAM is absolutely fantastic, and having other languages to be able to leverage its power can only be a good thing. I have high hopes for Alpaca personally, a super modern ML that targets BEAM. I think that in a similar way to how an APL-like would allow leveraging BEAMs building blocks in unique ways, an ML type system that’s aware of BEAM would allow for some seriously powerful, seriously correct programs. There’s a lot of research into algebras for concurrent and parallel processing, which slot nicely into ML-likes. https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/blob/master/README.md