GoKawiilGleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.18.0 has been published.
Language server record field support
Gleam's focus on static analysis and static types really helps with creating tooling, and that can be seen very clearly with Gleam's much-loved language server. All its features and capabilities can be seen in its documentation.
One remaining missing part of it was full support for record fields, a problem now fixed! The language server now supports go-to-definition, find-references and rename for record fields. These work on the field declaration, on labelled arguments, on labelled patterns, on record updates and on record.field accesses, both within a module and across modules. For example:
pub type Person { Person (name: String , age: Int ) } pub fn main () { let lucy = Person (name: "Lucy" , age: 10 ) lucy.name }
Thank you Alistair Smith! People will be very happy for this one!
Type variable renaming
Similarly, the language server now permits renaming type variables in functions, types, and constants. For example:
pub fn twice (value: a, f: fn (a) -> a) -> a { f ( f (value)) }
Produces:
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