As a heavy Go user and former ReasonML kinda-fanboi, Gleam really piques my interest. Still looking for the right project to give it a try with, but watching from afar I’m really impressed with what I see.
Like go it’s a very easy to grok programing language, but with a functional approach.
For backend stuff, it compiles down to Erlang and run on the BEAM which is a very powerful and battle-tested environment to deal with concurrency.
For frontend stuff, it compiles down to Javascript.
In both case, it’s pretty easy to do interface with the target language if you need to (bindings to a library, use language specific function to improve performance, etc…)
I don’t know go, but the tooling in Gleam is very good and getting better every release !
As a heavy Go user and former ReasonML kinda-fanboi, Gleam really piques my interest. Still looking for the right project to give it a try with, but watching from afar I’m really impressed with what I see.
Some of the codecrafters.io courses (“write a Redis from scratch in Gleam”) are free until end of November! Quite a nice exercise to go through.
I plan on watching this video later.
Can anyone summarize what this offers over go?
Like go it’s a very easy to grok programing language, but with a functional approach.
For backend stuff, it compiles down to Erlang and run on the BEAM which is a very powerful and battle-tested environment to deal with concurrency. For frontend stuff, it compiles down to Javascript.
In both case, it’s pretty easy to do interface with the target language if you need to (bindings to a library, use language specific function to improve performance, etc…)
I don’t know go, but the tooling in Gleam is very good and getting better every release !
what projects are a good fit for gleam?
I was looking at database drivers and couldn’t find any I liked…