Gleam (programming language)

{{Short description|Programming language}}

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{{Infobox programming language

| name = Gleam

| logo = frameless

| logo size = 128px

| logo caption = Lucy, the starfish mascot for Gleam{{cite web | url=https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/2551 | title=gleam-lang/gleam Issues – New logo and mascot #2551| website=GitHub}}

| paradigm = Multi-paradigm: functional, concurrent{{cite web | url=https://gleam.run/ | title=Gleam Homepage|date=2024}}

| year = {{start date and age|2016|6|13}}

| designer = Louis Pilfold

| developer = Louis Pilfold

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q66370905|P348}}

| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q66370905|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| typing = Type-safe, static, inferred

| memory management = Garbage collected

| programming language = Rust

| dialects =

| influenced_by = {{cslist|

Alpaca|

Elm|

Erlang|

Elixir|

Go|

JavaScript|

OCaml|

Rust|

}}{{cite journal | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsTrQUt-4M&t=304 | date=2024-02-07 | title=Gleam: Past, Present, Future! | first=Louis | last=Pilfold | journal=Fosdem 2024 | via=YouTube }}

| influenced =

| operating_system = FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, Windows{{cite web|url=https://gleam.run/getting-started/installing/|title=Installing Gleam|date=2024}}

| license = Apache License 2.0{{cite web|url=https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/LICENCE|title=Gleam License File|website=GitHub |date=5 December 2021}}

| file_ext = .gleam

| website = {{URL|https://gleam.run/}}

}}

Gleam is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional high-level programming language that compiles to Erlang or JavaScript source code.{{cite news | url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713460/gleam-language-available-in-first-stable-release.html | title=Gleam language available in first stable release | first=Paul | last=Krill | work=InfoWorld | date=5 March 2024 | access-date=26 March 2024}}{{cite news | url=https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-gleam-a-new-functional-programming-language/ | title=Introduction to Gleam, a New Functional Programming Language | first=David | last=Eastman | work=The New Stack | date=2024-06-22 | access-date=2024-07-29}}

Gleam is a statically-typed language,{{cite news | url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/gleam-erlang-virtual-machine-1-0/ | title=Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0 | first=Sergio | last=De Simone | work=InfoQ | date=16 March 2024 | access-date=26 March 2024}} 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.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHx6n2UZJg |title=Getting to know Actors in Gleam – Raúl Chouza | series=Code BEAM America | date=2024-03-27 |language=en |access-date=2024-05-06 |via=YouTube}} Packages are provided using the Hex package manager, and an index for finding packages written for Gleam is available.{{Cite web |title=Introducing the Gleam package index – Gleam |url=https://gleam.run//news/introducing-the-gleam-package-index/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=gleam.run |language=en-GB}}