They mentioned that they wanted to port their compiler over to retain existing behavior (vs a re-write) and Rust has a hard time with their cyclic data structures.
Ditto, it feels like more people are coming around to the ML style type systems. I'm hoping Gleam will fill the void with a scalable BEAM backend and compiling to JS with Lustre on the frontend (or even just serverside with htmx).
Basically, it seems, it's Erlang for OCaml. Hot reloading would be a cool feature, though, but I can see why it's not implemented, at least not yet.. I recall the OCaml native toplevel is able to load code in dynamically, so that could be the mechanism to do it.
I think they were saying that Gleam was Go of functional programming? OCaml may be like Go compared to Haskell but IMHO Gleam really embraces simplicity and pragmatism.
I would say some other reasons OCaml is similar to Go is that the runtime is very simple, performance is on par and the compilation times are very fast. It also markets itself as a GC'd systems language similar to Go. I think a seasoned OCaml would be able to guess the generated assembler code.
I suspect that Gleam is quite different in that regard.
The one thing that could really push it into "dream language" territory is a sound type system. The Gleam language recently popped up as an up and coming solution to that... It's ReasonML/Javascript like syntax makes it familiar and has a good interop story.
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