beam_languages

I think that's going to be hard to find, depending on your definition of 'regular', tbh. The BEAM's grown up along with Erlang and so the culture and optimisations are built up all around function application, list processing, recursion, and pattern matching etc. https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages is a decent list of the diverse languages that have been implemented on it, but nothing quite like 'regular for and while loops'. The BEAM itself is a plain aul register machine though, so it could be done! https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/

That's true, in fact there are a whole bunch of BEAM languages[1]. It's just if OP needs to learn Erlang for their current project, learning Elixir, Gleam, LFE etc... might not be the best use of time. [1]: https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages?tab=readme-ov-file...

There is also: Purerl - Erlang backend for PureScript, a few folks are using this in production - https://github.com/purerl/purerl Caramel - Ocaml for Beam, seems dead - https://github.com/leostera/caramel and more probably dead projects at https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

Languages, and about languages, on the BEAM: https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages PS: You might also find this interesting : https://www.grisp.org/

I thought this was a call for Standard ML or something a rather on the Erlang VM. (I really enjoyed this article though!) As far as I know theres a few implementations of ML like languages on the Erlang VM https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages caramel and alpaca are worth checking out. Gleam doesn't look like a ML lang but has a lot of the same semantics of a ML lang

Have I got a link for you! https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages See you down the rabbit hole!

Elixir, LFE, etc. seem to work fine for the people who enjoy them. https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages LFE is Virding's himself, and has been around for longer than Erlang has been popular: Robert Virding - LFE - a lisp flavour on the Erlang VM (Lambda Days 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2KY12LB2w Edit: Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Robert Virding - London Erlang User Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0mbQbc9Kc

There are, in various stages of experimentation. Haskerl, a subset of Haskell for the BEAM VM. Alpaca, a version of ML. A Purescript BEAM back end. An Idris BEAM backend. See https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages/blob/master/README...

I think you might find one that suits your needs in this list https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

Some links worth mentioning https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ https://beautifulracket.com/ https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTLR https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages