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    0.13 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, is out erlang plt release gleam.run
    lpil avatar authored by lpil 1 year ago |
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    darkkindness avatar darkkindness 1 year ago | link

    oh my gosh, the new errors are beautiful! my favorite:

    error: Syntax error
   ┌─ /Users/a/parser_test/src/parser_test.gleam:13:38
   │
13 │ pub external fn a(name: String, Int, ,) -> Bool =
   │                                      ^ This is an extra delimiter.

Hint: Try removing it?
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      lpil avatar lpil 1 year ago | link

      Thank you, Greg did a fantastic job there!

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      animatronic avatar animatronic 1 year ago | link

      Sweet! Any plans for a non-Erlang backend?

      I love Erlang, would like Gleam to run in more places. Wasm?

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        lpil avatar lpil 1 year ago | link

        Thanks!

        I would like to target wasm in future but no work has been done here. We are currently working on a JavaScript backend.

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          md avatar md edited 1 year ago | link

          This has more to do with alternative backends for the BEAM bytecode rather than Gleam itself.

          With regards to WASM, the best bet could be Lumen

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            lpil avatar lpil 1 year ago | link

            Lumen is very cool but Gleam compiling to wasm directly should be able to out-perform Lumen compiled code as it can break Erlang compatibility in that environment and perform much greater optimisations using the type information. I’m interested in making a wasm backend, but we may never get there as the current backends are the focus.