alt Hacker NewsI still suspect the effectiveness of plugging in a type system patch to a complete system, like typescript to javascript. We still observe so many `as any` or `as unknown as` at every corner.
Despite of the suspicion, Gleam provides a better and elegant syntax for those who are not familiar with Erlang or functional programming languages, which I loved most.
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giacomocava • today at 6:49 AM
There’s no “unknown” or “any” in Gleam, it’s not possible to cheat the type system that way
That doesn’t really apply to Gleam, it’s not a type syntax for another language that can be stripped, it’s its own language that compiles to Erlang and JS