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Is it possible for someone to create a statically typed language that works on OTP/BEAM, or for an existing language to interface with them somehow? I tried le
by trevor-e 7y ago
Is it possible for someone to create a statically typed language that works on OTP/BEAM, or for an existing language to interface with them somehow?
I tried learning Elixir a while back and just couldn't get myself to like the syntax/ergonomics. It seems like most of the benefits people list for Elixir are actually attributed to BEAM, not the language itself.
- thomasfortes 7y agoSomething like https://gleam.run/ https://gleam.run/?
- alskdj21 7y agoYou could look into Gleam [1] and Alpaca [2]. [1] https://gleam.run https://gleam.run [2] https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca
- innocentoldguy 7y agoErlang is strongly typed. In my opinion OTP/BEAM is the killer feature of Elixir; however, there are a lot of other niceties as well. Macros, pattern-matching, tooling, readability, similarity with Ruby (a plus for Ruby developers) all spring to mind.