alt Hacker NewsDo you know the current status of gleam_otp? I’ve been in the erlang (and more recently elixir) world for a long time and am quite excited about gleam, but when I looked at it early on it didn’t seem to have a great solution for OTP. Can I write genservers in gleam now, and can they run as part of an elixir/erlang application/supervision tree?
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lpil • 10/12/2024
Yes, and this has been possible for a couple years now.
Elixir directly uses OTP because it is a dynamically typed language. Gleam folks concluded that OTP isn't really designed with static types in mind, and so set out to build their own version of OTP[0]. It is still early days, and lot of stuff is remaining, but what is already there is pretty good.
[0] https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_otp/