Comment by trenchgun
10 hours ago
You said: >I'd say if you know and like Rust, then Gleam should be easy to pick up but otherwise I'd try Elixir.
This is way too strong and narrow statement. Gleam is statically typed garbage collected language, closer to OCaml than Rust. Elixir if you like dynamically typed instead.
Obligatory comment that elixir is now gradually typed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388324
Tbh gradual typing sounds like a nightmare. Probably impossible to implement correctly, whatever your definition of "correctly".
Nah, the gradual angle is not what makes a type system tricky to implement. Plus we have published a few papers discussing how we are typing Elixir and how our approach is sound.