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.

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.

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. Patreon If you find my content valuable, please do consider sponsoring me on Patreon account.

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 transpires-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.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 6

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 5

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 4

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 3

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 2

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 1

Some Esoteric Languages

Dusty Phillips