The author shares their experience with Gleam, a type-safe language running on the Erlang virtual machine, by building an open-source feed aggregator. They compare Gleam to Rust and Erlang, expressing interest in its modern type system. They detail the project’s design, highlighting the unique feature of sorting posts by “reverse frequency.” The author also discusses Gleam’s language specification, design choices, error handling methods, Erlang interop, and OTP implementation. They praise Gleam’s simplicity and express challenges faced with error handling and deployment. Overall, the author finds Gleam intriguing for its blend of modern features and functional programming principles.
https://olano.dev/blog/gleam-coming-from-erlang/