One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel wi…
Gleam isn’t a very unique language. The loss from generalizing may be less than the improved ergonomics, if not now then as LLMs improve.
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel wi…
I hope this isn't the future of "new" languages. Hopefully newer AI tools can actually learn a language and they won't be the limiting factor.
it’s easy enough for them as soon as they have an RL environment for the language
It’s really good. But it needs generics. This is a huge downside. It’s a typed and clean functional programming language but it arbitrarily followed golangs early philosophy of no generics. Ironically golang is one of the most hated languages among many fp advocates. By the developers own action of adding generics ultimately the golang team admits they were wrong or that generics are better. If gleam gets popular I t…
Perhaps this is a silly question but how do you do functional with no generics? Arent they pretty much required for map/reduce/filter?
Sorry my comment was wrong. It’s been a while when I messed with gleam and I remember it was missing a critical thing but I misremembered what it was.
Gleam doesn’t support interfaces. Not generics. You are completely right.
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel wi…
Yes, because LLMs don't change the fact that different programming languages have different expressive capabilities. It's easier to say some things in some languages over others. That doesn't change if it's an LLM writing the code; LLMs have finite context windows and limited attention. If you can express an algorithm in 3000 loc in one language but 30 loc in another, the more expressive language is still preferred, even if the LLM can spit out the 3000 lines in 1s. The reason being if the resulting codebase is 10 - 100x larger than it needs to be, that has real costs that are not mitigated by LLMs or agents. All things being equal, you'd still prefer the right tool for the job, which does not imply we should use Python for everything because it dominates the training set, it means we should make sure LLMs have capabilities to write other programming languages equally well before we rely on them too much.
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel wi…
I feel that was more true 1-2 years ago. These days I find Claude Code write almost as good (or as bad depending on your perspective) Elixir code as JavaScript code and there must be less Elixir code in the training data.
It’s really good. But it needs generics. This is a huge downside. It’s a typed and clean functional programming language but it arbitrarily followed golangs early philosophy of no generics. Ironically golang is one of the most hated languages among many fp advocates. By the developers own action of adding generics ultimately the golang team admits they were wrong or that generics are better. If gleam gets popular I t…
I saw your other comment that you meant interface. But an example of a language that went without a feature people thought the language desperately needed was Go with generics. They only added them more than ten years later, when they figured out the best way to implement them.
It might be the same with gleam, with first version in 2019 and 1.0 in 2024. The language authors might think they are either uneeded and lead to anti patterns, or are waiting to see the best way to implement them.
Gleam is a great language. It didn't click for me when I was trying it out, but I'm glad to see more people enjoying it. And I wonder if Gleam + Lustre could become the new Elm.
As a mostly back end dev Elm looked really nice but all the conflict with the creator and then the lack of compiler releases made me shy away a bit.
I have bumped into "the Elm architecture" in other projects though and it was nice.
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel wi…
where do you think the corpus of training data comes from?