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		nerdponx on June 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scri... I'd be interested in if this is comparable to Gleam, a BEAM-based scripting language, that I discovered through HN.

dnautics on June 27, 2020 [–]

I believe gleam is a compiled language, and no more of a scripting language than say erlang (with escript) or elixir (via .exs files).

nerdponx on June 27, 2020 | [–]

I see.

I also realized after I posted that Wren is apparently meant to be embedded.

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