Exhaustive Gleam

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A new Gleam blog post/announcement has been posted!

Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v0.33.0 has been published, a release that contains some features we in the community have been looking forward to for a long time! Let’s take a look.

Exhaustive exhaustiveness checking

Gleam is designed to make writing and running production software less stressful. One way it does this is by preventing runtime errors that would have you scrambling to fix bugs in the middle of the night. If you don’t use assertions then Gleam code will never throw an exception, outside of hardware problems such as memory exhaustion.

Or that was the idea. There was one place where Gleam was not living up to this promise: pattern matching.

Pattern matching with a case expression is how flow control is done in Gleam. A series of clauses are writte...

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