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I've written a fair amount of Gleam for personal projects at this point and I actually really like `use` when the alternative is excessive indentation / callback hell. That said, I do feel like its existence is a bit contradictory to the language's stated goal of simplicity; `use` is not an orthogonal feature, and I could see it being the subject of much bike-shedding in a team setting.

Languages that have explicit goals of simplicity, like Go, have become increasingly attractive to me after working professionally with Scala for the past 3 years. Though I love Scala's expressiveness, the fact that there are a million ways to accomplish each objective makes decision paralysis and bike-shedding in code review inevitable.




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