Some Gleam Projects

January 5, 2026 in Programming Languages, Gleam

I spent most of my winter break in my wood shop, working on some tech adjacent projects that I will post about later. However, I also spent a fair amount of time at my keyboard, working on a handful of gleam projects I wanted to introduce here.

I’m theoretically working on a small full stack application, but as so often happens with me, I was sidetracked by developing open source libraries that I have no hope of keeping maintained. So these projects are all in support of full stack web development on lustre and wisp.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 6

July 27, 2022 in Programming Languages, Gleam

Introduction

This is the sixth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. In this one, I’m setting aside my little password cracking project to look at gleam for frontend development.

I love Rescript for frontend development, it’s a very practical functional programming language, and I’ve written a lot on the topic. So this article will also be a bit of a comparison of Gleam and Rescript. This isn’t really a fair comparison as Rescript is a mature language, and Gleam’s Javascript support is super brand new. I do not expect Gleam to supersede Rescript as my favourite frontend language, but stranger things have happened.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 5

July 24, 2022 in Programming Languages, Gleam

Introduction

This is the fifth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. In the most recent article, we started exploring how Gleam interfaces with ERLang’s powerful OTP concurrency framework to brute force some passwords. However, it was suboptimal, partially because I didn’t know what I was doing, and partially because I didn’t have time to go into some of the deeper details. I also had a super valuable tip from the Gleam discussion group that I wanted to go into.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 4

June 5, 2022 in Programming Languages, Gleam

Introduction

This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. The first article explored some of the most basic features of Gleam; just enough to say hello. The second discussed looping constructs, namely that gleam doesn’t have them. The third was supposed to be about parallel programming and OTP, but it ended up being more about looping and recursion.

So this one is about parallel programming and OTP. Every other programming text I’ve written leaves concurrency until quite late because most programming languages make concurrency hard to get right (My will-never-be-published book on Rust took very serious issue with their “fearless concurrency” claims).

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 3

May 23, 2022 in Programming Languages, Gleam

Introduction

This is the third in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. The first article explored some of the most basic features of Gleam; just enough to say hello. The second discussed looping constructs, namely that gleam doesn’t have them.

This one was supposed to investigate how Gleam integrates with Erlang’s famous OTP library for concurrency and fault tolerance. But I got sidetracked and ended up doing a second article on recursion and tail recursion instead.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 2

May 4, 2022 in Programming Languages

Introduction

This is the second in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. The first article explored some of the most basic features of Gleam; just enough to say hello.

Hello is basically the first thing we learn in any language (whether human or programming). This article explores looping in Gleam. More specifically, it explores the fact that Gleam doesn’t have any looping constructs.

That’s right: none.

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A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 1

April 17, 2022 in Programming Languages, Gleam

Introduction

Gleam is a newish programming language that I recently stumbled upon. It is so little-known that there aren’t really any tutorials available on it (even on the official documentation), so I decided to write my own.

Gleam transpiles to Javascript and Erlang. I’ll be focusing my attention on the Erlang side of things, as it is more mature. And to be honest, I don’t feel any reason to replace Rescript, my go-to transpiles-to-Javascript language.

Some Esoteric Languages

April 14, 2022 in Programming Languages

Introduction

I was basically flat with an illness (yes, that one) on my back for two weeks in March. I could do little more than read articles on my tablet, and for reasons I cannot explain, I began chainsmoking the documentation for as many little-known languages as I could find.

I honestly don’t know why. In the fog of illness, it just seemled a fun thing to do. I’m weird.

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