Really enjoyed my experiments with Gleam! Such a lovely, simple language, and it’s clearly been made with great care and attention to detail.
My language of choice is Rust, but I’d go with Gleam in a heartbeat if I:
- Were working on a team with junior engineers
- Building a web app
- On a passion project, or in a business context where the lack of ecosystem etc. wasn’t a concern
For my own projects or with other senior folks, Rust’s complexity is a price you pay once and you reap the rewards forever afterwards. But Gleam’s simplicity would really shine in an organization with a wider range of experience levels.
My biggest complaint besides the obvious ecosystem stuff is that the most popular frontend library leaves something to be desired. It’s SPA-first, which seems like a very strange decision to make in 2025.
roxolotl · 3h ago
So excited to see this! I hand built a shitty version of this for a small project. Need to switch when I get a chance.
My language of choice is Rust, but I’d go with Gleam in a heartbeat if I:
- Were working on a team with junior engineers
- Building a web app
- On a passion project, or in a business context where the lack of ecosystem etc. wasn’t a concern
For my own projects or with other senior folks, Rust’s complexity is a price you pay once and you reap the rewards forever afterwards. But Gleam’s simplicity would really shine in an organization with a wider range of experience levels.
My biggest complaint besides the obvious ecosystem stuff is that the most popular frontend library leaves something to be desired. It’s SPA-first, which seems like a very strange decision to make in 2025.
Tiny bit of self promotion since it’s easier to link out to my own words than type them again. Typed actors in Gleam are so damn powerful. https://www.tcrez.dev/2025-07-13-gleam-otp-101.html