Why “Gleam” is being discussed
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It's a general purpose language (as mentioned several times) and compiling to js eg. for lustre webapps (elm-ish). I've contributed to the js compiler once only and can't find a…
by Blackarea · Oct 6, 2026
You know what they say, Gleam is a dream :)
by okkdev · Oct 6, 2026
I will just say, as of recently, especially thanks to AI, I've been doing projects in Gleam, I am on third Gleam project and it has been very pleasant experience. It takes longe…
by desireco42 · Oct 6, 2026
I use Rust and prefer Elixir over Gleam because Elixir has Lisp-style macros (Gleam doesn't), uses OTP directly, has the fantastic IEx REPL (Gleam has no counterpart), and has P…
by innocentoldguy · Oct 6, 2026
> Like at some point the neatness of doing all loops as recursion wears off and it's just tiring. Odd, but I believe you, lol. Elixir's list comprehensions take a `:reduce` opti…
by sodapopcan · Oct 6, 2026
Why our agent OS runs on Gleam and Zig, not Python or Rust
by kendallgclark · Oct 6, 2026 · 3 points
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