Comment by Cyph0n
2 days ago
I have never seriously used a BEAM language (Elixir/Erlang/Gleam), but for me, it’s the opposite: the most attractive part of Gleam is that it runs on BEAM :)
My reservations at this point are mostly around maturity of the language, the stdlib, and the library ecosystem; although I haven’t been following progress too closely.
Having done quite a bit of erlang, I think the gleam stdlib learned quite a bit from erlang and elixir and hasn't fallen into some of the same traps.
This allows things like the pipe operator |> to be a little saner.