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PureScript is a mature functional programming language with an Erlang back end, if you want another statically typed alternative for BEAM. It is basically a dialect of Haskell with strict evaluation and row polymorphism.

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The JS backend is mature, but the Erlang backend and accompanying ecosystem is very small compared to Gleam.

The website and gh repo say it compiles to JS. Where did you learn that it has an Erlang backend?

https://github.com/purescript/documentation/blob/master/ecos...

Isn’t it the opposite of what the GP stated:

> purerl is a PureScript backend targetting Erlang source.

The backend is not Erlang. It’s a Purescriot backend.

https://github.com/purerl/purerl

I think that’s just confusing wording. It sounds like it’s a backend for the Purescript compiler that generates Erlang.

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