My first experience with Gleam Language

Software Engineering Lead passionate about Backend, Cloud, DevOps, APIs, Kubernetes, Go. Currently leading an engineering team at Solsten.

Over the past few months, I saw a growing amount of posts on X about the Gleam language (probably the X algorithm doing its thing), and decided to give it a try. I was not disappointed, with few exceptions.

Disclaimer 1: This post shares my personal experience with the language, and it is not a comprehensive review of the language. It’s not sponsored by anyone, and I’m not affiliated with the Gleam team.

The first thing I did was to go through the official Gleam Language Tour which was a pleasure. After an hour I familiarized myself with the syntax and the basic concepts of the language. I remember that’s how I started with Go as well, and I believe that every language must have an interactive tour like this.

The next thing I did was to install the language on my machine. I was surprised by how easy it was to install the language and the tooling on macos.

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