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Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine, and as of today’s v0.16.0 release Gleam compiles to JavaScript as well! (more…)

After a few months writing Clojure I began writing Javascript again. As I was trying to write something ordinary, I had the following thoughts: They seemed unnecessary. But I imagine I’ve thought… (more…)