In this episode, I talk to Giacomo Cavalieri, a core Gleam team member. We cover what makes Gleam special and why developers love it, and how it brings modern type safety to the battle-tested Erlang ecosystem. How did Gleam become Stack Overflow's 2nd most admired language in such a short time? Listen to the episode and find out!
Topics Covered
- Gleam's design philosophy of simplicity and the "one way of doing things" approach
- Statically typed functional programming with the Hindley-Milner type system
- How Gleam targets the BEAM VM and JavaScript for full-stack development
- The history of BEAM and OTP
- Who uses Gleam in production
- The Lustre framework for building web applications in Gleam
- Integrating Gleam with OTP
- How Gleam made it to 2nd Most Admired Language in the Stack Overflow 2025 Survey
- How to speak at conferences
- Why Gleam deliberately excludes type classes and traits
- The future of Gleam
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