Gleam, Coming from Erlang

Gleam, coming from Erlang I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little open-source feed aggregator that’s now live. These are my notes. why I’m interested in Gleam I spent most of my career working with dynamic languages: Python, JavaScript, Clojure, finally Erlang. I don’t claim to be an expert but the Erlang VM is the piece of technology I’ve become most intimately familiar with. There is no way around it, I think: if you’re running Erlang in production sooner or later you’ll be thinking in terms of processes, scheduling, failure modules, resource utilisation . After Erlang, I dabbled in Rust, both professionally and on personal projects, and I was very impressed by its type system, its error handling, and the developer experience it enabled. The thing is: Rust comes with all the systems programming overhead, which in my opinion is not a good bargain if you are not, you k ... Read full article.