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  • I love seeing how gleam gets better and better with every release, sadly I dont have any projects where I could use gleam :(
    by olexsmir
  • I love this language, but I have to wonder how much harder it is to grow a niche language these days when everyone is just telling Claude what to build for them. It seems like LLM friendliness is going to become the new benchmark for adoption if it hasn't already, and I find that pretty sad.
    by tmountain
  • The title is a bit misleading because one might imply that Gleam no longer compiles to something Erlang can use (not true).

    From the article:

    > Over the last few months Giacomo Cavalieri has entirely rewritten Gleam's Erlang code generator that has an entirely different design, and most notably, outputs a different format. Previously Gleam generated Erlang source code, now it generates Erlang abstract forms.

    by tiffanyh
  • Gleam is my new default language and ecosystem. Until last year, I first reached for .NET on new projects. ".NET everywhere" and such. But Blazor apps are huge and slow. These days I often advocate first for Gleam. With Lustre and Tauri it can run anywhere.
    by sltr
  • Gleam is such a beautiful language. I wish I had the opportunity to use it more. If it could compile (transpile) to a native target like rust or go, it would be truly perfect.
    by MichaelNolan
  • Shout out to Giacomo's twitch streams. He has taught me about some features of Gleam, Rust, and on top of that he's just a very chill person. He takes time away from his focus to answer questions politely and without judgement. There are dozens of programming streams where the streamer forgets to leave their ego at the door and he is not one of them. I highly recommend following it.
    by zachrip
  • Erlang is one of those runtimes I've loved since learning about it all the way back in 2008, but I never took time to learn the syntax, but Elixir and Gleam have had me fiddling with the Erlang VM over the years. Happy to see Gleam growing into maturity.
    by giancarlostoro
  • to those curious, erlang abstract form[1] is the AST representation used by the erlang compiler/etc. per [1], you can see that it's canonically made of erlang terms, and you have easy access to routines for manipulating this representation from the standard library; it's really comfy when you need it! it's also the target elixir compiles down to, and the representation manipulated by parse transforms, which in base erlang are the way syntactic sugar (notably qlc[2] and some of the more cutesy pattern matches in merl[3] (which, in turn, manipulates the very same representation to do its job. very meta!)) is done.

    most BEAM languages actually settle on erlang abstract format. you'd think core erlang would be more common since it feels more like a traditional functional IR, but basically only LFE does this, because it's a moving target without any particular stability guarantees from release to release.

    1: https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/erl_parse.html#t:abst...

    2: https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/qlc.html#q/2

    3: https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/syntax_tools/merl.html

    by 0x69420

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