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My Impressions of Gleam

When I was about to go on paternity leave, the Gleam programming language reached 1.0. It's such a small language that I was able to learn it over the span of two days. I tried to use it to convert a GitHub Action from JavaScript to Gleam, but I

I find that a nice balance of practicality while trying to write code that is as reliable as possible by knowing that if you get passed the compiler you're probably doing pretty well (which is good for projects you are not going to work on often but do have the time to put in the extra effort upfront to deal with typing and such). While the functional typing occasionally felt tedious, I knew there was benefit to it if I wanted things to work in the long-term with as little worry as possible that I had a bug in my code. The language was nice and small, and so I didn't have issue keeping it in my head while I coded (most of my documentation reading was for the standard library).

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