Gleam News
What is Gleam?
Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale! 🌟 It combines the power of a type system, expressiveness of functional programming, and reliability of the Erlang runtime. With a modern syntax, Gleam aims to help developers tackle larger codebases on the BEAM. 🚀
Latest Gleam News
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Article about Gleam language reaching version 1.5 release, with details on new features and updates. |
Oct 11, 2024 |
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Gleam: The new programming language for building typesafe systems |
Blog post introducing Gleam as a new programming language for building robust and type-safe systems. |
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Introduction to Gleam, a New Functional Programming Language |
Article introducing Gleam, a new functional programming language, and its key features and capabilities. |
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GitHub Discussions
🗣️ Here's what's happening in the Gleam repo discussions:
- Gleam v1.0.0 release announcement - major milestone for the language ecosystem 🎉
- Questions around using Gleam's 'try' syntax for error handling and result types
- Discussions on improving developer productivity with features like code formatter, documentation generation
GitHub Pull Requests
📝 Active pull requests in the Gleam repo:
- Check Gleam package against Python by @MyDeathMachine to validate parsing 🐍
- Contributions from the community to improve language, compiler, standard library
GitHub Issues
🐞 Notable issues in the Gleam repo:
- Discussions around improving Gleam's performance compared to Python
- Questions on Gleam's type system and error handling
- Requests for new features like type-safe processes, OTP integration
Twitter Buzz 🐦
💭 Here's what people are saying about Gleam on Twitter:
- @aenglisc_ mentions Gleam as an alternative to Elixir
- @metruzanca shares thoughts on Gleam's minimal syntax, functional style
- @louispilfold (Gleam creator) engages with the community
- @zorozuro480 discusses learning Gleam and handling result types
Gleam Tips 💡
🧠 Helpful tips for working with Gleam:
- Use the 'try' syntax for clean error handling and result types
- Leverage Gleam's powerful type system for large codebases
- Take advantage of Gleam's interoperability with Erlang/Elixir
- Explore the standard library for common data structures, functions
- Contribute to the growing Gleam ecosystem and community!
New Gleam Repos
🆕 Check out these new or recently updated Gleam repos:
- lenient_parse by @MyDeathMachine for lenient string parsing
- Contributions to the core Gleam compiler and standard library
- New libraries and tools emerging from the growing ecosystem
Learn About Gleam
🎥 Get an introduction to Gleam in this insightful video:
Gleam: A New Statically Typed Language for the Erlang Virtual Machine by Louis Pilfold covers Gleam's key features, including its powerful type system, BEAM integration, and growing community.