Learning Gleam

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:43 +0300

Gleam is a statically typed functional programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. I work with .NET, so there’s no realistic hope of using it at work. But as a language it has everything I like: it’s functional, it has strong static typing and pattern matching, and its API is small and consistent.

I’m currently working through the Exercism Gleam track, and I must say it’s a joy to program without classes, interfaces and other bloat.

Gleam on Viklund

Learning Gleam