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by lpil 2mo ago
This regularly happens with Microsoft's GitHub. You can also opt to not use Bluesky for authentication.
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by lpil 2mo ago
Yes, frustration with GitHub outages certainly made me start to look elsewhere.
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by lpil 2mo ago
I wish! Alas, the Gleam project continues to be under-funded and we have not got a single penny from any venture capital company. If anyone would like to give me a large amount of money in exchange for my publishing a mirror on your git for
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by lpil 2mo ago
While the way that Tangled is funded is not my preference, I see great potential in atproto for improving the internet. This and and a lot of interest in the Gleam community for the protocol made me decide it was a good place to host a mirr
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by lpil 2mo ago
Sorry, I don’t know what you mean.
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by lpil 2mo ago
No no, you misunderstand. It doesn't mean the same thing as you imply with your previous comment. Writing is contextual, if one only looks at the literal then one misses the other half of the meaning. Unfortunately your proposed change
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by lpil 2mo ago
Because that means something else.
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by lpil 3mo ago
> Black and White lives matter, but that's not what Glean is signalling. It is! citation: I wrote it.
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by lpil 3mo ago
We should really remove the cheatsheets, they have not been maintained in many years.
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by lpil 4mo ago
What were the inaccuracies? I'm not aware of any, but we can fix any that are found right away.
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by lpil 4mo ago
Hi, I'm the lead maintainer of Gleam. > I don't know the current state of Gleam OTP, but last I checked it wasn't great. Gleam uses regular OTP, it doesn't have a distinct OTP framework separate from other BEAM langua
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by lpil 4mo ago
Hello! I'm the maintainer of Gleam. We are not rewriting OTP, regular OTP is used in Gleam. Most commonly the typed Gleam APIs for OTP are used, but you can use the untyped Erlang APIs if you wish. This is the same as in Elixir, where
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by lpil 8mo ago
It only happens on hacker news. Elsewhere it is not mentioned or it is praised. Gleam does have a formal code of conduct.
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by lpil 8mo ago
Gleam is the same as SQLite, we have some community values on the website but the licence doesn’t exclude anyone from using the software.
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by lpil 8mo ago
How you behave in community spaces is 100% related to the project. I agree, that would be very silly. I don't think you can compare not tolerating racists to mandating a particular car colour.
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by lpil 8mo ago
Sorry, I've been unclear. The runtime behaviour and cost of calling an Erlang function is the same in Elixir and Gleam, however the syntax is more verbose in Gleam as it asks for type information, while in Elixir this is optional.
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by lpil 8mo ago
All open source projects have a political agenda. That's the purpose of the licence, to force certain behaviour.
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by lpil 8mo ago
In a world with package management there’s no practical difference between the core modules being in one package or multiple packages.
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by lpil 8mo ago
All open source projects are political by their very nature.
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by lpil 8mo ago
This is the same as Elixir, you need to specify what Erlang function to use in that language if you want to use Erlang code. The only difference is that Gleam has a more verbose syntax for it.
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by lpil 8mo ago
You can use all the BEAM debuggers and tracing tools, and Gleam has a print debugging keyword. Unfortunately there is not yet a plugin for the BEAM debuggers for them to use Gleam syntax.
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by lpil 9mo ago
SQLite is likely the most widely used production database due to its widespread usage in desktop and mobile software, and SQLite databases being a Library of Congress "sustainable format".
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by lpil 9mo ago
I presume they checked out Gleam years ago, or their investigation was more shallow. That aside, it is normal in Elixir to use Erlang OTP directly. Neither Elixir nor Gleam provides an entirely alternative API for OTP. It is a strength that
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by lpil 9mo ago
We've not had any proposals for a design like that. We are open to proposals though! I wrote a blog post detailing the process here: https://lpil.uk/blog/how-to-add-metaprogramming-to-gleam/
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by lpil 9mo ago
OCaml's modules are not implicitly instantiated, so they provide the same DX and APIs as you would get in Gleam. Elixir does have protocols, but they are extremely limited compared to type classes, traits, etc, and they're uncommo
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by lpil 9mo ago
Thank you!
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by lpil 9mo ago
Free software was started as a political movement by Stallman et al. Why would we stop now?
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by lpil 9mo ago
There’s several options, depending on what you want. The most commonly used option is the language server.
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by lpil 9mo ago
Yes, one would use higher order functions, as is common in Erlang, Elixir, OCaml, Elm, etc.
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by lpil 9mo ago
I would be very interested in hearing about your experience writing Gleam and the problems you have! We regularly collect feedback and haven’t got problems reported here, so your feedback saying otherwise would be a useful data point.

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