Func Prog Podcast Episode 15 - Giacomo Cavalieri

Gleam, a functional programming language emphasizing friendliness and developer experience, is the focus of this podcast featuring Giacomo Cavalieri, a core team member. Giacomo highlights Gleam's design goal of being approachable, contrasting it with languages prioritizing performance over usability. He details the language's inspirations, drawing from Elm and Rust for error messages and developer tooling, and emphasizes the conscious decision to maintain simplicity by avoiding features like type classes. Gleam's ability to compile to both Erlang and JavaScript enables full-stack development with code reuse, exemplified by the Lustre framework. Giacomo also recounts his journey into Gleam development, from fixing typos to becoming a core contributor, and touches on the language's growing adoption in production environments.