<story><title>Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Looks decent. I somehow missed the previous thousand discussions.&lt;p&gt;I’d love to hear from anyone running it in production.&lt;p&gt;I have always been BEAM-curious, but never felt comfortable running it in production, as it feels like a big black box, and I’m not confident that I’d be able to diagnose problems as readily as I can in .NET, Go, or Node. I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmitc</author><text>I think it might actually be &lt;i&gt;easier&lt;/i&gt; to inspect the BEAM over those other VMs. For one, it is much older and stable. And secondly, the BEAM has a lot of self-introspection features.&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend the talk &lt;i&gt;The Soul of Erlang and Elixir&lt;/i&gt; by Sasa Juric which shows off the essence of the BEAM.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;JvBT4XBdoUE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;JvBT4XBdoUE&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Looks decent. I somehow missed the previous thousand discussions.&lt;p&gt;I’d love to hear from anyone running it in production.&lt;p&gt;I have always been BEAM-curious, but never felt comfortable running it in production, as it feels like a big black box, and I’m not confident that I’d be able to diagnose problems as readily as I can in .NET, Go, or Node. I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt;  I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.&lt;p&gt;unfamiliarity? Plus the problem of &amp;#x27;nobody ever got fired for running IBM&amp;#x27; plaguing your work.</text></comment>