Keynote: Gleam's Journey on the BEAM - Hayleigh Thompson & Louis Pilfold | Code BEAM Europe 2024

[@Chouzar]

Incredible keynote! Very well delivered. This is the perfect moment for Gleam's ecosystem to keep growing!

[@lpil]

Thank you!

[@lpil]

Thanks for having me! CodeBEAM is a fab conf

[@StingSting844]

Top G

[@CodeSync]

It was our pleasure!

[@olekollo7875]

Louis, is there a plan to compile gleam to binary or rust?

[@lpil]

@@olekollo7875 Rust would be an extremely poor compilation target. Native code may happen in the far future but no work is being done on this presently.

[@glob514]

What a great talk from a couple of wonderful Gleamlins 💜 I wish I could have been there in person!

[@lpil]

Hopefully we'll meet in person in the near future!

[@JérômeD-i3x]

Great talk about the BEAM and what Gleam brings to it :) thanks

[@TheOlian04]

Finally some more Gleam talks!

[@pookiepats]

I love Elixir for showing me the importance of types, which led me to Rust. Had Gleam been around maybe that’d be it, cool for those that want a better Elixir now though.

[@olekollo7875]

Louis, is there a plan to compile gleam to binary or rust

[@lpil]

Rust would be an extremely poor compilation target. Native code may happen in the far future but no work is being done on this presently.

[@olekollo7875]

@lpil It's a pity that in the distant future. The lack of compilation into a binary file is what stops me from using gleam. But it's good that it's in the plans. Why would Rust be such a bad compilation target? I don't know much about this, but I'd like to know.

[@lpil]

@ Rust compiles slowly, has a toolchain that is not commonly installed, and the type system and borrow checking is a hindrance rather than a benefit when generating code.

[@olekollo7875]

@@lpil thank you

[@josemata8865]

Amazing talk, happy of being a beamer

[@piyush-kacha]

It was amazing talk.

[@sambitsahoo2700]

🚀

[@conradjacobson6028]

why I will never use / recommend the language summed up in one thumbnail 😆

[@133289ify]

Yikes😂