Gleam: A First Impression – Friendly Community Meets Efficient Development

The author learned and used the Gleam programming language to complete a project before going on paternity leave. He was drawn to Gleam's friendly community, concise design, robust type system, and its compilation support for both Erlang and JavaScript. While encountering minor issues, such as redundant type name typing, he was overall pleased with Gleam and plans to continue learning and using it. He hopes Gleam will one day support WebAssembly/WASI and a Python backend.