On: Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM

[mrkeen]

For someone who's advocating a functional programming language, this is a weirdly terse "don't use this for performance reasons" take.

[igouy → mrkeen]

"The most common class of 'less suitable' problems is characterised by performance being a prime requirement and constant-factors having a large effect on performance."

FAQ 1.4 What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?

https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction#idm53