Yes, and the video is available in full right now. That’s my current business model. (I’m the author but I didn’t post the article here — I would expect older articles to show up)
(author here) in which ways does Gleam come short of that? Because I'm also looking for that middle ground and I was very curious to get a look at Gleam.
IMHO it's just that it's a beam VM language, which is a fatter runtime/ecosystem than is really needed to achieve the goal stated above can bring it's own bag of problems (but also it's own superpowers).
Also to be productive you have to utilize the rest of the erlang ecosystem, so at least some superficial knowledge in elixir & erlang is helpful for for some use-cases.
Syntactically I actually don't think it's that for off, but I dunno what GP was thinking, maybe that it leans more into functional patterns & sugar for those whereas rust/go can also be used in a procedural style. (Though at least personally I am using way more functional patterns in rust than I expected)
Trying to come up with a reply made me realize something. I was initially going to write something like "it's just not ready yet" but paused for a moment and reflected on that. That's actually not a real reason why it would come short of that. And instead of talking about how something "is not quite ready yet" we can instead choose to invest into it and use it anyway, with the goal of contributing and helping make it "ready" and more widely used.
Out of everything mentioned, I think Gleam is the most likely to succeed and what I think I will invest in as well. But that's not just because of the language design but rather because of their approach to community and community building! It's a very very nice extra that the language/syntax also happen to be what I like and have described in my previous comment.
I fixed the SVG graphs and made a couple layout updates based on the feedback here and some earlier feedback from my subreddit, see the before-after here.[1]
I've been mostly focused on function lately, the redesign is, let's say, a work in progress.
(Oh also, I use they/them pronouns these days [2])
Yes, PDF is what I really want, but apparently it didn't get the "<img> tag treatment" so, we have to leave with "SVG with text as paths, and perfect layout" or "SVG with embedded fonts (a subset if you're brave), and selectable text".
It hasn't been finalized yet, I link to a bloomberg piece in the article from 10 days ago that says it _looks_ like they're going to go back on it but nothing confirmed afaict.
I thought the DOJ was pretty stern on blocking this deal as it would be anticompetitive to users and would result in the outcome others have described here in the comments.
