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• gleam

Projektgeschichte

Louis Pilfold announced Gleam v0.1 in April 2019 as a friendly language for maintainable, scalable systems on the Erlang virtual machine. The early design combined ML-family type-system ideas with BEAM interoperability, so Gleam modules could call Erlang and Elixir code and expose libraries back to the wider BEAM ecosystem.

The 1.0 release in March 2024 marked the language, compiler, build tool, package manager, formatter, language server, and WASM/JavaScript compiler API as stable public surfaces. That milestone turned Gleam from a promising BEAM experiment into a production-oriented language with a semver promise for its core tooling.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Gleam grew around BEAM developers who wanted static types without giving up Erlang's runtime model or Elixir's library reach. Official documentation also points learners from Elixir, Elm, Erlang, PHP, Python, and Rust toward migration guides, which reflects the language's role as a bridge between functional-web communities.

The project maintains its own package index and documentation flow, making third-party libraries visible without depending solely on Hex package pages. That helped Gleam develop a recognizable ecosystem around web services, deployment guides, editor tooling, and core-team packages.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use `gleam new`, `gleam build`, `gleam test`, `gleam format`, and `gleam publish` as the normal project loop. In package-manager terms, installing the Homebrew formula gives the compiler plus the build and package tools, with `gleam.toml` as the project manifest.

Gleam is most often chosen for network services, web backends, command-backed project automation, and typed libraries that need BEAM interoperation. The JavaScript target extends the same source language to browsers and other JavaScript runtimes.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, Gleam is a small but complete language stack: one binary, one manifest, official docs, official package search, and reproducible project commands. That makes it easy to package compared with language ecosystems that split compiler, formatter, package manager, and language server into separate distributions.

Zeitleiste

• 2019: Gleam v0.1 announced as the first public release.
• 2024: Gleam v1.0 released with stable language and tooling APIs.

Related projects

• Gleam is related to Erlang and Elixir through the BEAM runtime, and to Elm, OCaml, and Rust through type-system and developer-experience influences.

Quellen

• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam
• https://gleam.run/documentation/
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-version-1/
• https://gleam.run/news/hello-gleam/