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Depending when this was, it was likely pre-1.x days? Things moved very quickly there for a while - it's worth checking back in again. Gleam seems to have a lot

by Alupis 1y ago

Depending when this was, it was likely pre-1.x days? Things moved very quickly there for a while - it's worth checking back in again. Gleam seems to have a lot of obvious influences from Rust, and the creator is a rust dev. While the Gleam ecosystem is vastly less mature than Elixir's or Rust's (because it's literally younger), the language itself, I've found, is vastly more pleasant to read/write. YMMV of course.

lpil 1y ago
> Gleam seems to have a lot of obvious influences from Rust, and the creator is a rust dev. Hi! That's me! Gleam the language doesn't have any Rust influence really. It's a happy accident that some of the syntax ended up looking the same, but that's likely due to both being inspired by similar languages such as OCaml and the C family. Most the syntax and the semantics predate Gleam's compiler being rewritten in Rust. The build tool is a rip-off of Cargo for sure though.
- Alupis 1y ago
  > The build tool is a rip-off of Cargo for sure though. Hey, great artists steal, as the saying goes... It's all shaped up really nice. I'm a big fan of Gleam and your work in general.
  - lpil 1y ago
    Thank you, very kind.
zem 1y ago
more like both gleam and rust have a strong ML influence (gleam might actually consider itself an ML? not sure about that, but it's definitely a descendant)