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> perhaps a chimera of Rust, Go, ML and Lisp

I think it is pretty much just ML on the beam? It resembles rust and go maybe in the ways that they have also been influenced by ML. The syntax is fairly C-like which I guess resembles rust more than ocaml but I think that's surface level. I don't know rust or go but I don't see any concepts in gleam that aren't familiar either from ocaml or erlang.

Lisp I don't see it at all, except treating functions as entities in their own right, which is a nearly universal language feature at this point and doesn't ring as particularly lispish to me anymore.




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