How I ended up writing Gleam for a living
summary
Gleam compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and uses a simple, 22-keyword design that lets teams learn it in hours and adopt it incrementally via FFI. A use-based control-flow idiom replaces nested callbacks, and ecosystems like Luster, Lifeguard, Barnacle and PGO-backed Postgres cover frontend, workers, clustering and pooling. Rover runs Gleam for background job orchestration, shipping a graphing integration and reporting no incidents so far in production while two thirds of Gleam apps run on the BEAM.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Python YouTuber to Gleam
- 2:51Simplicity of Gleam
- 4:14Expressiveness of Gleam
- 6:02Compiling to Erlang and JS
- 7:48Gleam growing BEAM
- 9:14Backend libraries and tools
- 11:01Deploying Gleam at Rover
- 13:05Gleam in production
- 15:56Getting started with Gleam
