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Why we started building a gradual type system for Lisp Flavoured Erlang — a tour through how Haskell, Go, Rust, Typed Racket, Coalton, and Typed Clojure each spell the same small idea, the ergonomic quibbles that pushed us, and the strategic moves we borrowed from Gleam.

How fourteen years with Lisp Flavoured Erlang led to a new language — and how that language came home to power lfe.io.

The Wizard Book is getting an LFE edition — why I'm porting Abelson and Sussman across, a paragraph at a time, what has to change on the way (procedures, for one), and what must never change.

The matplotlib book left me wondering how much of the scientific-Python world I could pull onto the Erlang VM. The answer became two projects, a discovery I didn't plan, and line charts drawn in the terminal.

A Quick Introduction to ErlPort via LFE