First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges (www.ntietz.com)

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The blog post is the author's impressions of Gleam after it released version 1.4.0. Gleam is an upcoming language that is getting a lot of highly-ranked articles.

It runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), making it great for distributed programs and a competitor to Elixir and Erlang (the language). It also compiles to JavaScript, making it a competitor to TypeScript.

But unlike Elixir, Erlang, and TypeScript, it's strongly typed (not just gradually typed). It has "functional" concepts like algebraic data types, immutable values, and first-class functions. The syntax is modeled after Rust and its tutorial is modeled after Go's. Lastly, it has a very large community.

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[-] lung@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Doesnt seem particularly better than Go, unless you count compiling to JS as a strong need (knowing the JS world, I have my doubts on how useful/convenient that is until webasm really is adopted)

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