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You might find Gleam[0] a better fit.

I may be wrong, but last time I checked there was not a statically typed OTP implementation which is kindof a bummer. I think Gleam is the ideal implementation on top of the BEAM but it does just seem pretty immature.

It’s had it for a long time now: https://gleam-otp.hexdocs.pm/index.html

> Not all Erlang/OTP functionality is included in this library. Some is not possible to represent in a type safe way, so it is not included. Other features are still in development, such as further process supervision strategies.

It seems like they are re-implementing a half baked OTP lookalike, but they aren’t actually using Erlang/OTP under the hood which gives me pause as the Erlang/OTP implementation has been battle tested over many decades now whereas the gleem implementation is a complete rewrite.

Sounds like you can’t be happy with Gleam or related libs. I’d look into it or use it before calling it “half-baked”.

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