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Podcast: ElixirMix 139 - Gleam and Typing ft. Louis Pilfold
Louis Pilfold is the creator of the Gleam programming language. He explains what Gleam is and tells us where it came from.
He then dives into why he wrote a statically typed language for the BEAM, the challenges involved, and its strengths for programming and tooling.
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