The author reflects on their experience with the Gleam programming language, which they learned quickly before taking paternity leave. They encountered challenges when trying to convert a GitHub Action from JavaScript to Gleam but ultimately enjoyed their time with the language. The author admires Gleam's community ethos, design, typed functional paradigm, and the ability to compile to Erlang or JavaScript. After winter holidays, they decided to use Gleam to build a website aimed at helping users choose coding fonts, drawing from their prior exploration with code samples.
First and foremost, their statement about community on their homepage spoke to me: As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally.
The language is very small and tightly designed... I find that a nice balance of practicality while trying to write code that is as reliable as possible by knowing that if you get passed the compiler you're probably doing pretty well.
It compiles to either Erlang or JavaScript. Both have their (unique) uses which I appreciate... and in my case the latter is important.
I decided I wanted to create a website to help someone choose a coding font. When I was looking for one a while back I created screenshots of code samples.
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