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Gleam is nothing like Erlang or Elixir (its copying of Rust is so slavish it even has a toml file driven build system) and Erlang and Elixir are not split (the only place where they even sorta are is rebar vs. mix).

I don't particularly want to gatekeep "Rust fans who just want to write lots of Rust" off OTP. Let them have Gleam. Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

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Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.

> Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

What do you mean by this, I know how lifetimes work in rust, but how would you do it on the binary level ?

Binary is Erlangese for Vec<u8>, hope that helps

There are no lifetimes in gleam though right ? or did i miss the memo.

maybe they can add them to guard against copying large binaries too much

No lifetimes, absolutely no plans to add anything similar. We’re nothing like rust!

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