Congrats for the release !<p>It’s really great to see some strong contributors alongside Louis :)<p>I'm only learning Gleam right now but the feature set already feels small, very cohesive and well thought.<p>Pipelines, function capture, use expression, pattern matching: I wish I could work with this in Python at work :')
I love just the ideas in the Erlang system. I've tried to break into it a few times, including once or twice with Gleam, and kept getting blocked by terminology I didn't know and couldn't look up, or instructions that didn't have the intended effect. I became convinced I needed a guide who already knows the system.<p>That was a few years ago, and looking back I must have been wrong -- but I tried pretty hard. (I successfully learned my way around Haskell and NixOS, which are at least roughly as esoteric, but I thought much better documented. And NicOS isn't even that well documented )
Gleam is an interesting gem I have not tried yet but its basically written in Rust and compiles for the BEAM VM and has types, so you get a Rustish looking syntax that builds to BEAM and to my naive eye looks like its using a lot of their libraries and looks really nice.<p>Its had a lot of polish since the last time I ever looked at it, might have to experiment with it. :)