The Gleam Programming Language

Post by self_awareness » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

lpil wrote: post #138

self_awareness wrote: post #134

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Behavior related to the project maybe, but not behavior how should users behave every day in areas that are completely unrelated. "You are welcome to our community only if your hair is long and you drive a yellow car, if you're not then you're not welcome." is pretty insane IMO.

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.

Post by okkdev » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

tinfoilhatter wrote: post #139

__jonas wrote: post #136

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How is it insane to only welcome people to a community that act respectful towards other people? That seems like a really good way to build a solid community.

That's not the case with the Gleam community though. Unless you're willing to adopt their opinions / values / moral stance on certain issues, you won't be treated respectfully - you will be ostracized for having an unpopular opinion or view on a given issue. It is a totally insane way to run a project, and it's quite obvious the Gleam community is run by persons who are unable to handle people with opinions that diff…

Post by tinfoilhatter » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

okkdev wrote: post #143

tinfoilhatter wrote: post #139

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That's not the case with the Gleam community though. Unless you're willing to adopt their opinions / values / moral stance on certain issues, you won't be treated respectfully - you will be ostracized for having an unpopular opinion or view on a given issue. It is a totally insane way to run a project, and it's quite obvious the Gleam community is run by persons who are unable to handle people with opinions that diff…

Unpopular opinion like... being racist?

Post by Papipo » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

kunley wrote: post #100

YorickPeterse wrote: post #92

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The type of people complaining about this are usually the people you don't want in your community to begin with, so I doubt Gleam is missing out here.

Or the contrary, the kind of people finding this cool is usually the people you don't want in your community. Nice to have clarity about who doesn't want to even bother to deal with whom.

Post by perrygeo » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

packetlost wrote: post #117

smweber wrote: post #111

I’m trying Gleam out right now, and having most recently been writing Go, I’m really loving: - No nil, instead Option and Result - ADTs - Pattern matching + destructuring - Immutable everything by default - `use` syntactic sugar (weird at first, but once you’re used to it it’s pretty elegant) - LSP server works great for such a young language But most of all I think the overall simplicity of the language is really wh…

The use <- syntax is even more crazy when you realize that it's a programmer-friendly way of doing continuation-passing style.