Gleam (programming language)

Gleam
Lucy, the starfish mascot for Gleam[1]
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: functional, concurrent[2]
Designed byLouis Pilfold
DeveloperLouis Pilfold
First appearedJune 13, 2016 (2016-06-13)
Stable release
1.11.1[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 5 June 2025
Typing disciplineType-safe, static, inferred[2]
Memory managementGarbage collected
Implementation languageRust
OSFreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, Windows[4]
LicenseApache License 2.0[5]
Filename extensions.gleam
Websitegleam.run
Influenced by
[6]

Gleam is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional high-level programming language that compiles to Erlang or JavaScript source code.[2][7][8]

Gleam is a statically-typed language,[9] which is different from the most popular languages that run on Erlang’s virtual machine BEAM, Erlang and Elixir. Gleam has its own type-safe implementation of OTP, Erlang's actor framework.[10] Packages are provided using the Hex package manager, and an index for finding packages written for Gleam is available.[11]

  1. ^ "gleam-lang/gleam Issues – New logo and mascot #2551". GitHub.
  2. ^ a b c "Gleam Homepage". 2024.
  3. ^ "Release 1.11.1". June 5, 2025. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  4. ^ "Installing Gleam". 2024.
  5. ^ "Gleam License File". GitHub. December 5, 2021.
  6. ^ Pilfold, Louis (February 7, 2024). "Gleam: Past, Present, Future!". Fosdem 2024 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ Krill, Paul (March 5, 2024). "Gleam language available in first stable release". InfoWorld. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  8. ^ Eastman, David (June 22, 2024). "Introduction to Gleam, a New Functional Programming Language". The New Stack. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
  9. ^ De Simone, Sergio (March 16, 2024). "Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0". InfoQ. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  10. ^ Getting to know Actors in Gleam – Raúl Chouza. Code BEAM America. March 27, 2024. Retrieved May 6, 2024 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ "Introducing the Gleam package index – Gleam". gleam.run. Retrieved May 7, 2024.

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