Partying like it's 1977!

I recently stumbled on the finger protocol through happynetbox and thought it was pretty cool, so I wrote a finger server that reads user data from text files. It's a pretty simple protocol, but I think it's a fun way to enable a simple smolnet-style status page :)

News post: Gleam v1.16.0 released!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/991434

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Gleam is a boring language.

I don’t mean that.

It was mostly to make you click the link.

What I actually mean is that it’s a straightforward, predictable and stable language. It’s simple, and coming from the fast-moving world of TypeScript, where every month brings a new framework and every problem brings 10 ways to solve it, I am not used to simplicity.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/875628

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/832899

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The blog post is the author's impressions of Gleam after it released version 1.4.0. Gleam is an upcoming language that is getting a lot of highly-ranked articles.

It runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), making it great for distributed programs and a competitor to Elixir and Erlang (the language). It also compiles to JavaScript, making it a competitor to TypeScript.

But unlike Elixir, Erlang, and TypeScript, it's strongly typed (not just gradually typed). It has "functional" concepts like algebraic data types, immutable values, and first-class functions. The syntax is modeled after Rust and its tutorial is modeled after Go's. Lastly, it has a very large community.

Isaac Harris-Holt writes:

Modern software engineering can be a bit of a nightmare. You've got all these different third-party services to keep track of, and often many first-party microservices too! As it turns out, things can be made more simple using Gleam. Let me show you how.

Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam Programming Language, has been maintaining a Youtube Playlist of Gleam videos.