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I've used gleam for a toy project in uni, and AoC

My main friction point is that the Int type maps to different concepts in erlang and js

In erlang it's a arbitrary precision Int

In js it the js number type, which is a 64bit float iirc.

Also recursion can hit limits way sooner in js.

For me, my code rarely ran in both js and erlang. But could be skillissue

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Fair, but you usually don't run your project on both, unless you're writing a library.

Pick the target that makes sense for your project and stick with it :)

JS/TS isn't my favourite language, but it's pretty decent these days. If I'm picking a different language and targeting the web, it's probably because I want to run the same code natively as well.

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