Gleam, a typed language for the Erlang VM - Interview with creator Louis Pilfold

Thanks much to Louis for the interview and to Andre & Chris for collaborating!

[contextfree]

Thanks much to Louis for the interview and to Andre & Chris for collaborating!

[SundaraRamanR]

I've never had an opportunity to work with Gleam or BEAM-based languages, but I really like the way Louis thinks about design. Things like:
(1) the path of least resistance should lead the user to do the right thing and get to the right place
(2) the idea of intentionally having friction in parts of the language that should be used with care (like macros)
(3) that the Language Server is such an integral part of the language as to be considered part of the core team's work

[derschutz]

What about something like Lean 4 racket-style macro's?

[nathanfranck]

I heard about erlang from a presentation, and now I'm looking around for ANYBODY actually coding anything in it and I can't just theres no one coding this stuff that people are singing praises about. Is that weird to find that suspicious?

[l.piekha]

what kinda annoys me he spends more time trying to get good boy points doing surveys asking about gender instead of getting the hands down into code and being hardcore into it.
His project is great anyways, but could be have way less frills with identity/political related content.

[airman]

Gleam’s website is so full of work garbage that I lost all interest in touching it.