I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little open-source feed aggregator that’s now live. These are my notes. why I’m interested in Gleam I spent most of my career working with dynamic languages: Python, JavaScript, Clojure, finally Erlang. I don’t claim to be an expert but the Erlang VM is the piece of technology I’ve become most intimately familiar with. There is no way around it, I th...