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So Gleam moved to Rust, interesting. I remember it was supposed to be a type safe language for Erlang, because while Elixir exists, it's not type safe, one of t

So Gleam moved to Rust, interesting. I remember it was supposed to be a type safe language for Erlang, because while Elixir exists, it's not type safe, one of the main reasons I didn't start using Elixir, much as I like the Erlang philosophy.

mkishi 5y ago
It still targets Erlang—but the compiler's written in Rust (from the first v0.1 release in 2019).
- the_duke 5y ago
  It also targets JavaScript now, and maybe eventually Webassembly.
  - rockwotj 5y ago
    Tracking issue for native code is here: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/109 https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/109 unlikely they will directly compile to WASM. A similar language to gleam built on WASM is grain: https://github.com/grain-lang/grain https://github.com/grain-lang/grain