@sigismundninja my response was bare enough to be misconstrued, indeed. Specifying a use-case might help. What kind of code is slow? I only dabble a little in Erlang (and Prolog), but they do claim Erlang works for 1 desktop app https://wings3d.com

@tetrislife I'm interested in a general purpose language and Python replacement. One annoying feature of Python is that it is very slow. I believe BEAM is considered to be quite slow for single threaded generic CPU computation. No SIMD and worse than JVM. Still, much faster than Python.

I found out about the Elixir Nx package and now I'm quite optimistic about using Gleam and BEAM/OTP. It might actually be really good for distributed HPC and ML.