[giraffe_lady]

I've used both and like both. It's pretty smooth to use gleam code from elixir, so you could implement core data handling and business logic in gleam then still just use phoenix for the webapp layer.

But also just try elixir? In a lot of ways it handles like a typed language because of exhaustive pattern match and being able guard/match in function parameters. There's not much practical difference between matching on Some(data) or {:ok, data}. I prefer having types too, but for everything elixir (or erlang for that matter) gives you, it's a manageable compromise.

Anyway elixir is getting a type system right now. I like gleam a lot but I'm not sure it's really aiming to be a universal elixir replacement.