A developer who primarily uses Rust for personal projects published a blog post detailing their experience trying Gleam, a functional programming language that compiles to the Erlang VM (BEAM) and can also target JavaScript for use with Node.js. The post highlights Gleam's simple syntax, its interoperability with Erlang and Elixir, and draws comparisons to Rust, noting that much of the code they wrote in Gleam could reportedly be adapted to Rust with minimal changes.
nchagnet.eu
· 2026-11-09
Imp is a new Elixir library that ports DSPy's approach of declaring language-model tasks as typed, measurable functions to the BEAM virtual machine. Developers define signatures describing inputs and outputs, choose reasoning strategies like chain-of-thought or ReAct-style tool use, and run an optimizer against labeled example sets to improve performance. The library builds prompts and validates responses automatically, returning typed fields rather than raw text.
github.com
· 2026-09-27
The author is ending a three-and-a-half-year-old blog series that documented hands-on experiments with Elixir and the Erlang VM, including a telescope-simulation project that led to conferences and friendships. They cite the rise of LLM-generated code and writing as the reason, saying open-source discussion has collapsed and some community members now let AI tools like Claude post under their name and photo.
lucassifoni.info
· 2026-09-02
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