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📫 Fault tolerant multicore programs with actors

Language: Gleam

Things I like about Gleam's Syntax | Oct 2023
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Looks like it is an external library[^1]. Readme states it is experimental and lists some limitations.

[^1]: https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
Gleam 0.15 | May 2021
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We have a fully type safe and Erlang compatible OTP library! It is used in production today.

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

It is not a wrapper around gen_server etc, but instead it is a full implementation from the ground up using a very small Erlang core (~200 lines). This was done because:

a) Erlang OTP cannot be typed, we need different abstractions are designed with types in mind

b) We want to be confident that our abstractions are powerful enough to build something like OTP, rather than cheating by relying on type casts.

I'm very happy with how Gleam OTP is going, but it is not the focus now that an initial version is out. Tooling and documentation is more important at the moment.
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) | Feb 2021
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Gleam looks like a very promising language! I hadn't seen it before.

https://gleam.run/book/tour/try.html

It also looks like there are currently some serious limitations:

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp