Gleam is my new obsession
Gleam my new obsessionI love Rust, but…In my previous blog post I stated that I started defaulting to Rust for my personal projects. While I really like Rust for its type-system, I’m not a huge fan of its learning curve. There is definitely a bit of a sunk-cost with a dash of Stockholm syndrome whenever I say I love Rust.I’d often joke, “I love Rust, but what I really want is a simpler Haskell with a C-like syntax” or “I love Rust, but if it had a garbage collector, Rust would be my perfect language”.If I was being honest, what I really love about Rust is that it is a popular language with algebraic data types. Any language that doesn’t have sum types to express exclusivity has an incomplete type system, in my opinion. The other benefits of Rust, its safety and speed, are secondary to…
