I finally gave Gleam a serious look and ho boy I'm excited. I've looked at Gleam a long time ago back when it started with the ML-like syntax. I've always been an Elm fan, I discovered functional programming with Elm. Near 2016-2017 I tried Elixir and Phoenix, and gave it a try multiple times following the years, but I'm not fully sure why it never clicked completely for me.
As someone engage with Go for the last 10+ years, I won't lie that I was looking for some excitement lately. Not because I'm tired of Go or anything, I've dabbled seriously into Python/Django in the last 3-4 years. But Gleam, at least so far, as this I don't know what that I felt when I started Go back in 2014.
There's so many programming languages these days that I suppose it's really comes down to a matter of taste. I do have some minimal checkboxes that a language must checked before I even considered looking at it, and Gleam was checking them all. It's a refreshing language after 10 years of Go. Just another tool in the toolbox, but I'm extremely picky about which tool I put in my toolbox haha, so Gleam for now is in the evaluation phase, but so far I'm excited and I haven't felt like this for a long time.