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Interesting, will check out. I am still evaluating Gleam, a language that's targets beam, but the compiler is written in Rust. It has actual strong typing, and I rather like it's Rust like syntax.

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I was too until they strayed from the more Standard ML-like syntax to Rust-like syntax all for trying not to alienate the Algol crowd and Rust aficionados. For popularity. I like APL, BQN, and J so I'm not swayed by it.

I really like Gleam, and I am a huge fan of more being built on the EVM.

Personally I want the EVM to (eventually) get the same level of adoption and mindshare as the JVM.

And currently wider Elixir use/education seems like the path to that.

EVM is the Ethereum Virtual Machine. You mean BEAM, right?

EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.

Except majority of people uses BEAM name for the last 13 years. Erlang VM or Erlang Virtual Machine is ok too. EVM name is just super not-popular, idk why.

Erlang's creators use EVM, which is where I learned it from. Not sure why it didn't catch on, either; I guess for a long-enough while BEAM was the only EVM implementation in common use, so it became the Xerox™ or Velcro™ of Erlang virtual machines lol

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