[jshawl]

Gleam is fantastic! https://gleam.run/ The syntax is familiar but there are several next-level features: - no conditionals (case all the way down) - `use` expressions - pipe operator

It compiles to either erlang or JavaScript, so I was able to jump right into building something fun with a new language.

>I previously gave Clojure a try, that was a pretty good fit, but the JVM / ecosystem put me off.

I felt similarly w/ leiningen (too much boilerplate) but was lisp-curious still so gave racket (https://racket-lang.org/) a try and appreciated the batteries included philosophy of the standard library and was inspired to learn more about writing a programming language (also see: https://beautifulracket.com/)

[lowkey]

Upvote for Gleam. Completely different paradigm. Made for building internet scale apps with offline first functionality in a fault tolerant way. Also great community.