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Can anyone comment on Gleam's type system? Is it similar to Haskell's?


No, it is not. It has no plans to introduce type classes and allows for impure (effectful) functions. It is perhaps most similar to OCaml.


Haskell's is much deeper but Gleam gives you algebraic types, generics and type aliases.

I believe Gleam offers deeper pattern-matching facilities. That is of course not the type system, but feels closely related to me.




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