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Interview and AMA with Louis Pilfold - Creator of Gleam (Unedited)

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  • Presented by Louis Pilfold, creator of Gleam

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesLanguage design and type systemsElixir and ErlangFunctional programming

Louis Pilfold discusses the creation of Gleam, why he chose the BEAM virtual machine, and his design decisions for the language.

See youtube.com/watch?v=G7vqoR431Zo for the edited version without Jeremy's dodgy internet! --- Jeremy chats to Louis Pilfold, the creator of Gleam, and puts your questions to him. We'll be focussing on Louis' decision to make Gleam a functional language, why he chose to make it, his aspirations for it, and its evolution so far. Don't miss it!

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What people say. Recommended for insights into the design philosophy of Gleam and the experience of building a new language community.

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Interview and AMA with Louis Pilfold (creator of Gleam) Hi everyone, As the final interview of Functional February we're speaking to Louis Pilfold, creator of Gleam. We'll be discussing why he chose to make a new language and why chose BEAM, his plans moving forward (including discussions on monads, macros and type classes), and his experience in building a community around a language. It'll be a similar format to the interview with José Valim (creator of Elixir), which you can watch back here You can watch live on YouTube or Twitch(twitch.tv/exercismlive) and we'll take any questions you write in the chat and ask them as part of the AMA at the end.

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Interview and AMA with Louis Pilfold - Creator of Gleam

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Interview and AMA with Louis Pilfold - Creator of Gleam