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AstonJ

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I believe this was from a talk by @alavrik:

Looking forward to seeing how the work by WhatsApp will help Erlang (and other BEAM languages like Elixir and Gleam too).

If you see this Anton, are you working on a new language or something that might become part of Erlang itself?

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alavrik

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Hi @Aston, this is not a new language. I’d love to share more, but I don’t wan to cause confusion before we are ready to share details properly in November.

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