6 years with Gleam
I've been contributing to Gleam since 2018. My first commit was modest. Even at the beginning the value of functional programming was obvious to me.
Gleam describes itself as "a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale". I couldn't agree with this quote more. That said, I do prefer the following phrasing
I was introduced to Elixir and the BEAM (the virtual machine that runs under erlang, Elixir and now Gleam) in 2014. They are a great set of stable productive technologies and I was able to get several jobs writing Elixir. I was a regular member of the Elixir meeting in London and gave several talks.
Through this community I met Louis (Gleam's creator) and got to know what he wanted to create with the language. For these first couple of years I was hacking with Gleam on occasion and continuing to work with Elixir and erlang.
In the summer of 2020 I joined YCombinator with my cofounder Richard. We built our startup on Elixir and Gleam. At the time Gleam was still fresh and using Elixir for the web framework parts seemed a sensible choice but for all core logic we used Gleam.
