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. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Sascha Wolf Guest Louis Pilfold Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Gleam News - Gleam GitHub | gleam-lang/otp Language Tour - The Gleam Book GitHub | jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler Compiling to Assembly from Scratch 120 RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart | Devchat.tv Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine - Louis Pilfold | Code BEAM V 2020 Twitter: Gleam Language ( @gleamlang ) Twitter: Louis Pilfold ( @louispilfold ) Picks Adi- Engineering a Compiler Adi- Code BEAM America 2021 Adi- SpawnFest 2021 Allen- Flying High with Flutter - YouTube Allen- Rust Integrated Dart Charles- The Prosperous Coach Charles- Kajabi Charles- Groove Digital Charles- Xero Eric- reMarkable Louis- The Little Typer Louis- The Gleam Programming Language - Discord Sascha- A Type of Programming Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora  Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf