Depending when this was, it was likely pre-1.x days? Things moved very quickly there for a while - it's worth checking back in again.

Gleam seems to have a lot of obvious influences from Rust, and the creator is a rust dev.

While the Gleam ecosystem is vastly less mature than Elixir's or Rust's (because it's literally younger), the language itself, I've found, is vastly more pleasant to read/write. YMMV of course.