Gleam for Impatient Devs

In a world where we increasingly worry about memory safety and low-level performance, one language is paying more attention to building stable, reliable concurrent systems. That language is Gleam, a new way to write functional code for the Erlang BEAM VM.

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Resources:
Gleam: https://gleam.run
Gleam Language Tour: https://tour.gleam.run
Standard library documentation: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Gleam
00:35 - Installing Gleam
00:48 - Gleam project structure
01:07 - Variables and data types
02:20 - Operators
02:41 - Blocks
02:56 - Imports
03:20 - Lists
03:43 - Pattern matching
04:40 - Functions
05:52 - Recursion
06:15 - Compound data types
07:19 - Modules
07:38 - Use
08:01 - Your Gleam journey

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