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Honestly with Elixir starting to implement gradual typing and having an mature ecosystem and amazing backend framework, it is probably the better horse to bet o
by cardanome 2y ago
Honestly with Elixir starting to implement gradual typing and having an mature ecosystem and amazing backend framework, it is probably the better horse to bet on for bigger projects on the OTP.
Not to say say that Gleam doesn't had has it's place, it is a very interesting language, just that Elixir is already a good and battle-proven language.
- pmontra 2y agoElixir has been in that place not too many years ago, on the verge of being mainstream. I'm not very sure that it's not still there now but I paid my bills with it for a while and I was generally happy with the language except for the handle this handle that verbosity. I liked the Ruby like syntax but I always said to the other devs in the team that an equivalent language with curly braces would be more successful because it would make many more developers feel at home. Gleam is a { } language and won't scare away anyone coming from C, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, etc.
- ljm 2y agoIt makes me sad that some engineers would legitimately consider a lack of curly braces to be a criticism of a language or a reason not to use it, especially when you look at the absolute atrocities that can be committed with the syntax of many C-style languages. Looking at you C++.