Creating Executable Binaries for the Gleam Programming Language
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todsacerdoti
Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
Summary
This article is a technical guide explaining how to create executable binaries for Gleam, a functional programming language that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript. The author discusses various methods for creating Gleam executables, using their own work-in-progress project as a demonstration. The guide covers the importance of target selection, different approaches to building executables, and their respective advantages and caveats.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledGleam is a new-ish functional programming language that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript.
It features a familiar Rust like syntax while being similar to Elm in complexity and in general is a lot of fun to work with.
The problem however is that Gleam does not natively support creating executables.
This note/guide explains how to create a Gleam executable in various ways, along with their advantages and caveats.
I will be using my WIP project to demonstrate the process of creating an executable throughout the guide.
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