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Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM


From Erlang, to Elixir and now, GLEAM!?

I thought that Gleam was super early, a cool gimmick, an experimental toy, but it stayed somewhere in my brain, in the box where I put the stuff I might get into, but not RIGHT NOW. OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is an architecture (and some kind of philosophy) for building fault-tolerant and highly concurrent software. Erlang and Elixir give the developer the abstractions needed to build on top of OTP, with the BEAM allowing you to run MILLIONS of processes, even on a tiny server.

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