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Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 10, 2025first mention
Oct 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“has the fantastic IEx REPL”
Rust user who prefers Elixiron “Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore”
“alongside Picolisp pil + and Elixir iex it's one of the earliest tools I install on a new system”
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Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore 1 mention
- PHP's Oddities 1 mention
- Error ABI 1 mention
Also written as IEx. Data: iex.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“has the fantastic IEx REPL”
“alongside Picolisp pil + and Elixir iex it's one of the earliest tools I install on a new system”
“it can indeed result in better performance than”