A Brief Introduction to Gleam

Erik gives us through a brief introduction to Gleam, solving an Exercism exercise and exploring why it's an interesting language to explore.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome
00:26 Introduction
00:43 What makes Gleam great?
03:52 Standout Features
06:36 Solving RNA Transcription
22:10 Learning Resources
23:28 Closing Remarks

[JosephTLyons]

Nice video! Gleam looks like fun Rust! I love how you wrote it like a beginner might and then refactored it into idiomatic Gleam code.

[DaveParr]

This is really interesting, I think the R solution would be quite similar, but without the strong typing and compiler checks.

[franciscoflamenco]

I was more than a bit put off by the code at first, since dealing with the result type seemed extremely tedious, but after the refactoring it turned out delightful.

I've been learning Elixir lately but I'll be sure to check out Gleam too at some point.

[kevinkkirimii]

this language is actually quite neat. I disliked erlang and elixir because the syntax was too far off mainstream which i get, they are functional but Gleam has gotten it right from the little I have seen here. It is easily familiarish to someone coming from another main stream non pure functional languages.

[razvbir]

What's the main reason one would choose gleam over elixir?

[johnkimber]

Great introduction. Could use some info on testing and some concrete examples of the underlying data via debug etc.

[marcusrehn]

Calling the to_chars function to_graphemes is the ultimate redditor "well actually" move. Im guessing that it's because it returns strings with length of one and not chars, but still.
Or perhaps im the only noob who didn't know what a grapheme is.

[coder_one]

Is Gleam deliberately trying to become a competitor to Elixir by further fragmenting the community into minor programming languages?