A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language
summary
Gleam claims to be a small, type-safe language that compiles to Erlang/BEAM and to JavaScript, using pattern matching and explicit Result types so failures are handled at compile time. The demo builds an HTTP request to the PokéAPI with an external HTTP client, pattern matches the Result to print a JSON body, and succeeds; the compiler flags a missing error branch. Tooling is integrated: gleam new, gleam add, gleam run, gleam test plus a built-in package manager and language server.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40What is Gleam?
- 5:36Gleam is type safe
- 18:19Gleam can scale
- 26:23Gleam is friendly
- 29:46Demo
- 34:54What now?
- 35:52Gleam language tour
- 36:21Gleam exercism track
- 36:43Get in touch
- 37:24Outro
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