Michael Lynch 6/22/2025

My First Impressions of Gleam

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This article details a developer's initial experience learning Gleam, a statically-typed functional language similar to Elixir. The author documents their process of building an AOL Instant Messenger log parser, covering fundamental tasks like parsing command-line arguments using the argv library and understanding the `gleam build` command. It serves as a practical introduction to Gleam for programmers familiar with languages like Go and Python.

My First Impressions of Gleam

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