Run Gleam run (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.

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Featuring:

• Louis Pilfold – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Gleam.run
• Sponsor Louis on GitHub Sponsors
• lustre-labs/lustre
• Giacomo Cavalieri

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:01:31)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

3. Start the show! (00:03:52)

4. Louis' first language (00:06:32)

5. Forcing our personal tastes (00:09:29)

6. We're taste functions (00:10:32)

7. Be a jack of all trades (00:14:21)

8. What is Gleam? (00:16:08)

9. Gleam for web? (00:18:07)

10. Why two compilers? (00:22:29)

11. Sponsor: Cloudflare (00:26:01)

https://www.cloudflare.com/developerweek

12. Erlang to Rust (00:28:23)

13. Gleam for compilers? (00:30:36)

14. What is Louis building? (00:34:03)

15. It's a Cargo cult (00:37:08)

16. Gleam vs TypeScript (00:44:10)

17. Sponsor: imgproxy (00:46:09)

https://imgproxy.net/

18. Sponsor: Factor (00:49:37)

https://factormeals.com/changelog50

19. Tons of support on GitHub Sponsors (00:51:31)

20. Next level for Gleam? (00:56:52)

21. Gleam vs Go (01:04:32)

22. Gleam's language server (01:07:41)

23. Go to gleam.run (01:11:03)

https://gleam.run/

24. Adam is Louis' favorite (01:13:28)