I've been trying Gleam of and on for a few years and different tasks. When it works it's really neat, but I find myself constantly having to write your code in Erlang which kind of defeats the joy of using it.
The biggest missing feature for me though is the lack of a receive syntax. Sending and receiving messages should be a first class citizen on the BEAM.
There is a very limited workaround in the standard library, but I guess the requirement for type safety means we'll have to wait forever for anything that can actually do things like listen to PIDs or the inbox without Erlang or if the box.
I'm still hopeful this will be tackled, as I really can't stand the concurrency primitives of most other statically typed languages and Gleam has the most promise to fill that niche.
The biggest missing feature for me though is the lack of a receive syntax. Sending and receiving messages should be a first class citizen on the BEAM. There is a very limited workaround in the standard library, but I guess the requirement for type safety means we'll have to wait forever for anything that can actually do things like listen to PIDs or the inbox without Erlang or if the box.
I'm still hopeful this will be tackled, as I really can't stand the concurrency primitives of most other statically typed languages and Gleam has the most promise to fill that niche.