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Gleam v1.17.0

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Re: Gleam v1.17.0

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Post by __jonas »

Lovely to see support for building escripts in the compiler. I’d be excited to see that go one step further and provide something like the deno/bun/node compile feature, allowing one to export a binary that includes the BEAM and compiled code in a single file. I know some people are working on tools like that already and it’s not trivial, but having it in the compiler would be really neat.

Re: Gleam v1.17.0

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Post by Defletter »

Huh, I didn't know how much I needed a "todo" type until now. So often I'll be defining a packet sumtype, or a collection, and not have created the type yet, so just use ubyte, or Object, or whatever. Having an explicit "todo" type would be amazing in other languages.

Re: Gleam v1.17.0

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Post by adamdecaf »

Defletter wrote: post #7

Huh, I didn't know how much I needed a "todo" type until now. So often I'll be defining a packet sumtype, or a collection, and not have created the type yet, so just use ubyte, or Object, or whatever. Having an explicit "todo" type would be amazing in other languages.

Scala has had a function called ??? which fills the same role and it’s really useful.

https://scala-lang.org/api/3.3.1/scala/Predef$.html#???-0

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