MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF GLEAM

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Gleam is an Elixir-like language with static typing, which this dev is learning by building a parser for his old AIM chat logs. He documents his initial experiences, highlighting both the enjoyable aspects, like pipelines and pattern matching, and the challenges of adjusting to a functional paradigm with no loops or traditional control flow. He also talks about the language's limitations, including a small core and standard library, as well as awkward error handling.