Jumping on the Bandwagon: How I ended up writing Gleam for a living
summary
Accidental adoption leads to concrete results: Gleam compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and uses FFI for incremental adoption, with ecosystem libraries like Wisp, Lifeguard, Barnacle and Luster to run web and backend code. Typing is light — 22 reserved keywords with 15 in use — and teams pick it up in hours. At a small startup Gleam orchestrates background jobs, powering production systems with no incidents since deployment and a function-graph tool built in two days.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:46YouTuber to Gleam fan
- 2:32Why Gleam is my favorite
- 3:56Gleam’s simplicity and ease
- 5:42Gleam’s use keyword
- 7:51Gleam and BEAM runtimes
- 10:00Deploying Gleam at Rover
- 12:28Trusting Gleam in production
- 15:37Getting started with Gleam
- 17:23Gleam advocate
- 17:43Q&A
