Gleam v1.9

As always Gleam’s lsp actions show just how much useful code generation can be done without the need for any gen ai so long as you have strong types. I continue to be amazed just how much the community cares about the developer experience of the language.

I do not quite understand that it runs on BEAM and Javascript with runtime.<p>Most of the great things I like about Elixir is tied to feature native to BEAM. (I think).<p>And I would expect that BEAM has not been ported to a Javascript runtime?<p>I would also expect at Gleam for Javascript can use and interact with Javascript libraries and what not, not possible under the regular version.<p>I would also expect that it is possible to write useful code that mill work on both platforms. but with a lot of limitations.<p>Do I have this completely wrong?

Feels like Gleam is gaining a lot of steam and getting a lot of attention recently. It’s the language that I am most excited about right now. It’s hitting all the right notes.

All the pain to get echo working was 100% worth it! What a great release

Gleam looks like a really nice language that I haven&#x27;t had a place to use yet. Does anyone have experience using it as a replacement&#x2F;alternative for TypeScript for (e.g.) CLI tools?

What is the point of making echo a special syntax and not just a function? And add another function to retrieve stack info.

As Elixir is getting its own type system, should one still pick Gleam over Elixir?

I tried to find out why I would try gleam, what I would use it for.<p>What I found convinced me it wasn’t for me.<p>1. Language behavior depends on the back end. Int doesn’t necessarily mean Int.<p>&gt; When running on the Erlang virtual machine ints have no maximum and minimum size. When running on JavaScript runtimes ints are represented using JavaScript&#x27;s 64 bit floating point numbers.<p>2. If it’s not an Int it’s a Float. Short numeric tower. I guess that’s ok. No BigInt with a guarantee it will not overflow? No exact Rational?<p>3. Type annotations [are optional and] “don’t change how the program runs”.<p>Ok this sounds like Python. Supposedly there are guarantees indicating “if it compiles it runs” but I’m worried. How do you even know the inferred type of your function is what you really think it should be? (I’m familiar with inference gone crazy from Haskell.)

What&#x27;s a good way to learn Gleam? In college I would learn new languages&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;concepts through projects, but these days I have too many projects already.<p>I don&#x27;t expect I&#x27;ll ever use Gleam at work, but the language does look very appealing to me and fun to use.

Whatever happened to the Erlang wasm backend?