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 ran into issues due to Gleam wanting to be the top of the language stack instead of the bottom. As such I ended up learning and using ReScript. But I still liked Gleam and wanted to try writing something in it, so over the winter holidays I did another project with it from scratch.
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Secondly, the language is very small and tightly designed which I always appreciate (Python's "it fits your brain" slogan has always been one of my favourite tag lines for the language).
Third, it's a typed, functional, immutable language that is impure. 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).
