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
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