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Those two aren't even the only options. There's also Lisp-Flavored Erlang (LFE), and maybe other languages targeting the virtual machine BEAM. https://lfe.io/
by pmw 3y ago
Those two aren't even the only options. There's also Lisp-Flavored Erlang (LFE), and maybe other languages targeting the virtual machine BEAM.
https://lfe.io/ https://lfe.io/
It's similar to a multitude of languages targeting the Java Virtual Runtime (JVM) -- functional, imperative, object-oriented, actor-based -- whatever you want, but they all produce interoperable bytecode.
- lawn 3y agoI'm personally a big fan of Gleam. Bringing static typing to the BEAM is like a dream come true! It's a young language to be sure, but I see the potential. (Maybe don't bet your startup on it.)
- lpil 3y agoI would definitely bet my start up on Gleam!
- slekker 3y agoCongrats on the upcoming v1 release!
- vegabook 3y agobut does it have a REPL? Lots of BEAM's runtime interaction capability is lost without one.
- lpil 3y agoGleam can be used from the Erlang REPL easily, there's no additional runtime/overhead or complex translation between the two languages.
- gregors 3y agoalso Lua in Erlang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703949