There’s no “unknown” or “any” in Gleam, it’s not possible to cheat the type system that way

Speaker here! I'm really happy about this talk, I hope people enjoy it as much as I enjoyed delivering it :)

“We wouldn't be using Gleam if it wasn't a safe, sensible - almost boring - choice.” - I think this has become one of my new favourite quotes

Exciting to see new Gleam production uses pop up! Great writeup :)

I have to say, it's been great for hosting my little server! I ssh into it to code using Helix and it's been really good at compiling Gleam and running the language server as well :)

Amazing to hear success stories of Gleam in production! Running on the beam really feels like a super power

Omg yes, pattern matching is such an amazing feature I miss it dearly in languages that don't have it!

Implementing the decision tree optimisation was such a rewarding process, worth every minute I spent head scratching!

Gleam is great too!

> the language server (which is included within the gleam binary) now provides the "find references" feature

This was my #1 most wanted feature, I’m so grateful to Surya for implementing it, he’s amazing!!

The tooling for Gleam, although not perfect, is one of the best among more younger languages. The other day I saw a post about Crystal here that got me interested, but the LSP and code formatting aren't very good, which makes the whole experience a lot worse. Programming with Gleam is fun in part thanks to the tooling.