So excited to see this! I hand built a shitty version of this for a small project. Need to switch when I get a chance.

Tiny bit of self promotion since it’s easier to link out to my own words than type them again. Typed actors in Gleam are so damn powerful. https://www.tcrez.dev/2025-07-13-gleam-otp-101.html

Really enjoyed my experiments with Gleam! Such a lovely, simple language, and it’s clearly been made with great care and attention to detail.

My language of choice is Rust, but I’d go with Gleam in a heartbeat if I:

- Were working on a team with junior engineers

- Building a web app

- On a passion project, or in a business context where the lack of ecosystem etc. wasn’t a concern

For my own projects or with other senior folks, Rust’s complexity is a price you pay once and you reap the rewards forever afterwards. But Gleam’s simplicity would really shine in an organization with a wider range of experience levels.

My biggest complaint besides the obvious ecosystem stuff is that the most popular frontend library leaves something to be desired. It’s SPA-first, which seems like a very strange decision to make in 2025.