elixir_script
gleam
elixir_script | gleam | |
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2 | 96 | |
1,560 | 15,033 | |
0.3% | 5.1% | |
0.0 | 9.9 | |
over 4 years ago | 6 days ago | |
Elixir | Rust | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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elixir_script
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Angular without SSR is faster than Next.js with SSR. I have the data
I agree that there's room for a language that runs on the BEAM and also compiles to JS. Gleam looks great, and it's one of the up and coming languages that I'm rooting for. In addition to having a Javascript compile target, it's statically typed which is a prerequisite for me when it comes to productivity and correctness.
There was actually a developer working on a subset of Elixir that compiles to JS called Elixirscript[1], but development seems to have stalled. Another functional statically typed compile-to-js language which targets the BEAM vm is Purescript through the Purerl project [2].
If you're going to compile to JS though, there's an argument to be made that you might not want to target the BEAM at all. You could potentially run your entire backend on something like Cloudflare Workers, which has over 200 points of presence around the world, so latency is about as low as possible. The other CDNs have their own competing worker runtimes as well (e.g. Cloudfront functions, Netlify functions, etc.). These edge worker runtimes also have the benefit of not charging for each individual region in which you operate. You can also run any language which compiles to WASM like Rust, Assemblyscript, or Grain [3] on these edge runtimes. The only missing piece for me is a distributed database, but it looks like Cloudflare at least is working on that [4].
[1] https://github.com/elixirscript/elixirscript
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Erlscripten
— Elixirscript is a Elixir to Javascript transpiler with similar goals as our project. The main downside of Elixirscript is the lack of OTP support (Erlang’s main framework for building failsafe applications) — it works on a really small subset of the Elixir language and they need to rewrite the Elixir standard library in Javascript for it to work. In contrast we are OTP compatible — we transpiled the real Erlang standard library from OTP and distributed it open-source: https://github.com/erlscripten/erlps-stdlib ( Erlang Solutions ).
gleam
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Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
I haven't had time to really try to write anything in it, but https://gleam.run/ looks really good too. Like Elm for backend + frontend!
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Release Radar • March 2024 Edition
Want a friendly language for building safe systems at scale? Gleam is here for you. It features modern and familiar syntax, that's reliable and scalable. Gleam runs on an Erlang virtual machine, and can run plenty of concurrent tasks. It comes with a compiler, build tool, formatter, editor integrations, and package manager all built in so you can get started right away. Congrats to the team on shipping your first major version 🙌.
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The Current State of Clojure's Machine Learning Ecosystem
While I love Clojure, I have to agree about tooling. I recently started using Gleam* and was impressed at how easy it was to get up and running with the CLI tool. I think this is an important part of getting people to adopt a language.
* https://gleam.run/
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Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests
If you use languages that compile to WASM (such as Gleam https://gleam.run), and can also run Postgres via WASM, then it opens very interesting offline scenarios with codebases which are similar on both the client and the server, for instance.
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Why the number of Gleam programmers is growing so fast?
Recently, Gleam has gained more popularity, and a lot of developers (including me) are learning it. At the time of this writing, it has exceeded 14k stars on GitHub; it grew really fast for the last month.
- Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
- Gleam v1.0.0
- Gleam has a 1.0 release candidate
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Welcome to the Gleam Language Tour
Oh, strange that github had a date of 2016 on this one: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/2
I was just going by that, though I do remember checking out gleam 5 years ago or so.
Re: macros, I really do think they’re a big deal and all the other newer languages I’ve used, such as Rust have some kind of macros or powerful meta programming features.
For older languages, a few, like Ruby have enough meta programmability to make nice DSLs, but many others don’t. Given the choice, I’d much rather have Elixir/Clojure style macros than other meta-programming facilities I’ve seen so far.
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Inko Programming Language
I had been only following this language with some interest, I guess this was born in gitlab not sure if the creator(s) still work there. This is what I'd have wanted golang to be (albeit with GC when you do not have clear lifetimes).
But how would you differentiate yourself from https://gleam.run which can leverage the OTP, I'd be more interested if we can adapt Gleam to graalvm isolates so we can leverage the JVM ecosystem.
What are some alternatives?
key_value_parser
are-we-fast-yet - Are We Fast Yet? Comparing Language Implementations with Objects, Closures, and Arrays
ex_abnf - Parser for ABNF Grammars
web3.js - Collection of comprehensive TypeScript libraries for Interaction with the Ethereum JSON RPC API and utility functions.
lex_luthor - Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir. Lexer in Elixir.
Rustler - Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
ponyc - Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
nx - Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir
abnf_parsec - ABNF in, parser out
hamler - Haskell-style functional programming language running on Erlang VM.