WP Cron Pixie v1.5.0 released: Front end switched from Elm to Gleam – ianmjones
There’s a brand new version of WP Cron Pixie available to install, and with luck, even though it’s changed immensely under the hood, you’ll not see any difference compared to the previous version! 😄
Back in May 2023 I got interested in Gleam after seeing Kris Jenkins interview Louis Pilfold on the Developer Voices podcast, I loved the idea of a type safe functional language with a clean but familiar syntax, that compiles to Erlang to run on the BEAM, or to JavaScript to run basically everywhere.
I poked around at Gleam now and then, not really getting anywhere, and decided I needed to write some project in it, that’s usually the best way for me to pick up a language. So back in April 2024 I started rewriting WP Cron Pixie’s front end from Elm to Gleam as part of my YouTube channel.
I recorded a few episodes, but alas, life got in the way, and I stopped recording videos for my YouTube channel while distracted by some personal and work projects, including moving house.
