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⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems! (by gleam-lang)

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  • Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2026
    https://gleam.run/

    Here's why Gleam belongs on libopedia and Odin does not:

    >As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.

    >Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

    Does Odin tell you to check your privileges? No? thought so.

    OP tries very hard to pretend the person he's writing a hit piece on, on a blog/website that was entirely created for this singular purpose (no other posts in there), is the one and only that has political obsessions and surely nothing about libopedia is political!

  • Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2026
    You might find Gleam[0] a better fit.

    [0] https://gleam.run/

  • Ruby for Good
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2026
    Dude, what? Is it the MINASWAN acronym that's the problem or? If that's "trumpeting moral virtue", I can think of lots of programming languages that trumpet their moral virtue:

    Let's check out the Rust Code of Conduct (https://rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct/):

    "Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude."

    "We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic."

    Seems pretty morally virtuous, no?

    How 'bout Gleam... Right on their home page (https://gleam.run):

    "As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.

    Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t."

    Seems morally virtuous, too!

    Also also: what does the "whytheluckystiff debacle" have to do with any of this?!

  • Hello, Donna (A new Programming Language)
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 May 2026
    Donna’s syntax is inspired mostly by Gleam, with a few Python-like touches.
  • Gleam v1.15.0 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2026
  • A Grand Vision for Rust
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2026
  • Cielos, y un jam con Gleam
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2026
  • Xoscript
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2026
    As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.

    Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

    [1] https://gleam.run/

  • The Gleam Programming Language
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2026
    tbf https://gleam.run/ -> https://gleam.run/documentation/ -> https://gleam.run/getting-started/installing/ is two clicks, maybe it should only be one

    although the playground is a much gentler introduction than installing gleam+erlang+rebar3

  • I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2025
    I don’t know anything about gleam. I couldn’t find anything as “shoving political ideologies” on their code of conduct https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUC...

    Examples?

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gleam-lang/gleam is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of gleam is Rust.


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