> If it gets a decent community / ecosystem I think it would be a frontrunner for sure, especially for web apps.

There is! From my understanding, Check out the gleam discord server and communities around it.

There are some good web frameworks in Gleam like lustre. I feel like you are gonna love this guy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kr4Ydx6GGU

> One potential issue is that the runtimes it targets are not that great at processing - they fanout well on BEAM but may not be the best for heavy processing. Not a deal breaker but smth that others like F#, OCaml, Rust can outperform in if the other attributes do well.

I can agree to that. Gleam as a language is still not the best for these things (currently) but it supports the ability to transpile to Javascript and I feel like there are multiple things that gleam can and might be doing to make things faster, so in a sense I am hopeful about their future!

I feel like gleam can be considered as the modern ruby in some sense if one bets on it and to be honest, ruby wasn't slowed by many of these things and even right now some major projects even backend wise are written in ruby (homebrew comes to my mind) so it depends but yea, personally I am a gopher fan. I really love its simplicity for the most part, There are some interesting projects in the golang world where people are starting to transpile to golang from a more rust-y flavour/feeling. Some were on Hackernews recently, I would recommend checking them out if you might have some free time to tinker around!

And thanks for responding to this comment and have a fun time tinkering, personally I really like to sometimes just print hello world in different languages, I don't know what there is about them but printing hello world makes me happy but as such I just know the very basics of a language and I haven't played with them to a deeper level but just basics and watching videos about new languages etc., I like learning about new languages even if I might not use them personally.

I recommend watching tom delande's video of rating languages as well, that video was one of the thoughts which had come when I was reading the article/the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbTj8DGOP0 I think you might enjoy it and have a nice day Sirhamy!