Exploring Gleam Language Through a Hands-On Project

Alex Pliutau shares his initial experience with the Gleam language. He starts by familiarizing himself with the language through the official Gleam Language Tour. After setting up Gleam on macOS using Homebrew, he decides to create a project that monitors websites. He discusses the setup process, including creating a new project, handling dependencies, and writing code for different aspects like parsing YAML configuration, working with SQLite, and managing concurrency using Erlang's capabilities. He also covers testing, IDE support, and his overall satisfaction with the immutability, error handling, and concurrency in Gleam. The article provides various code snippets and recommendations for those starting with Gleam.