[vintagedave]

It seems to be an Erlang-like language. The gleam.run site linked below refers to BEAM languages, which I haven’t heard of before.

I’ve read the entire front page. I don’t know more than that. A wonderful example of people who already know the answer writing the text. They really need a concise explanation. That said, they did very well in their explanation of benefits - the other part of a landing page - and I’d be keen to learn more.

From the conference page:

> the Gleam programming language, a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale! It runs on the Erlang virtual machine, as well as on JavaScript runtimes.

And that sounds really intriguing. But nowhere does it explain why or how it is ‘friendly’. Erlang has a mystique and I suspect there’s a really solid niche here they’ve found.

[tasuki]

For info on Gleam... https://gleam.run/

Agree, the conference page doesn't explain Gleam at all. Perhaps they expect everyone interested in a Gleam conference to know what Gleam is. A reasonable expectation, I'd say.

[tmountain]

It’s a very nicely designed language that can run on BEAM or compile to JavaScript. I played around with it a while back and loved it, but I don’t have any projects that align with its niche, so I basically forgot about it. That said, it hits all the right notes if you want a simple functional language with great type support, pattern matching, etc, with minimal syntax to learn.