I learned Gleam in a week. Here's how it went - Theo Harris

When a friend and fellow Elixir enthusiast dragged me into the Gleam community discord server, I found a tight-knit community who were passionate about their language. I decided to learn Gleam in the span of a week and share my experience with other devs who also have an Elixir background. Do I have any idea what I'm doing? Come join us and find out!

[seanknowles]

Terrible sound, unfortunate as its great talk!

[sirnawaz]

Do such presentations (with basic syntaxes and basic types) deserve a talk at such a conference? Also, does one need to spend A WEEK to learn these, which can be learned in few minutes? Seriously? 20 mins without any insight! Wasted my time!

[corlaez]

yeah horrible sound. Actually I am less excited about gleam after this presentation.
So you buy into types but there is no performance gains based on it. There is a bit of syntax sugar and that's it? Also the "I became an expert in a week" and the super basic syntax presentation that follows don't cohere. Really messed with my expectations on what the talk would be. At this point seems like I would use elixir rather than gleam.