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tunderscored··on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
I suggest the other way around Let's change si units to play nice with powers of two

Let me introduce the kibimeter

tunderscored··on The Gleam Programming Language
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