You should try Gleam

I’ve been getting into Gleam recently as well, and I’ve also really enjoyed it. (And I also came from Rust!)

The language is too simple.

In my opinion, while it can definitely feel like this at first, this is really one of Gleam’s strengths. Having written only Gleam for a little while, then gone back to eg Rust, I’d forgotten how many unrelated things other languages make you think about. Truly having one way to do things makes Gleam so much easier to read.

But I totally understand that the lack of macros or other complex features can put a few people off (for example, I read that currying is dearly missed).

Specifically related to macros, Louis (the Gleam guy) is not opposed to having a macro system, except that no convincing specific use case has come up that can’t be solved more simply with something else. And especially since macros add so much complexity, it’s a high bar. They wrote a whole post about it.

Also, a somewhat limited form of currying is available by using function captures: my_fun(wibble, _, wobble) is the same thing as fn(x) { my_fun(wibble, x, wobble) }. If you need more arguments you’ll need to do the full anonymous function, but it covers most use cases.

I am interested in Gleam and this seems to be a nice introduction.

I really like the concept of the pipeline operator. But as I write more and more Python this days I also love easy iterators. Is there a way to merry pipeline operator with iterators? I would like to be able to split on strings in a streaming fashion (something which is not as seamless in Python either other than re.finditer or io.StringIO for newlines).

I don't like cute ligatures (triangle, arrows etc.) on this site, they make it harder for me to read and understand. JS to remove it via Web Inspector:

for(const ss of document.styleSheets) for(let i = ss.rules.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {if(ss.rules[i] instanceof CSSFontFaceRule){ss.removeRule(i)}}