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Re:Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional program... by weatherlight on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:25PM (#35035891)
> I'd really like to see something like that for functional programming.

Elixir has awesome tooling and developer experience, its over 10 years old built on a vm thats 35 years old.

Has communities dedicated to domains around embedded systems, distributed/fault tolerant system, web development, machine learning, data pipe lines, ETL, etc.

It's just not in the ML or LISP families.

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Re:Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional program... by ch4s3 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:28PM (#35036816)
Yeah, if you're looking for a functional programming language and can live without static types, you need a pretty strong reason to look further than Elixir.
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Re:Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional program... by weatherlight on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:33PM (#35036851)
...and if you want the static type checking before compile time with a C like syntax on the Erlang Virtual Machine, Gleam is pretty compelling.

https://gleam.run/cheatsheets/gleam-for-python-users/

https://gleam.run/cheatsheets/gleam-for-php-users/

https://gleam.run/cheatsheets/gleam-for-rust-users/

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