The discussion centers on whether Gleam's ergonomic design and type safety make it a superior choice for AI-assisted development compared to mainstream languages, despite its smaller ecosystem. A significant portion of the conversation is dedicated to debating the community's political activism and code of conduct, with some users citing these as deterrents while others defend them as standard anti-harassment measures.
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gleam
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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1 sourcesHEhengestone·Oct 10, 2018
Kudos to Kofi for a nice project and a good write-up :+1: :)
Since you're not planning on continue the project, and are interested on 'Elm on the server', you might look at Purescript, which has a similar syntax, and compiles to Javascript, and also the BEAM: https://github.com/purerl
There are also C++ and C backends at
https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native and
https://github.com/pure-c/pure-c
If having a JS compile option is not a requirement, there are 2
more Ocaml/ReasonML-like BEAM laguages, https://github.com/alpaca-lang and https://github.com/lpil/gleam
(I'm kinda partial to Gleam, it seems really clean)
In An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine