Fault tolerant Gleam

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Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.2.0 has been published, a release that focuses on improving the language server and developer experience. It’s a big one both in terms of size and impact, so let’s take a look as what it includes.

Fault tolerant compilation

Gleam’s compiler has traditionally halted immediately when a compile time error was encountered, presenting the error to the programmer and requiring them to fix it before compilation can be attempted again.

The main advantage of this is that the programmer has just the first and most important error, rather than a mix of the real error and a bunch of red-herring cascading errors. On the other hand, if there’s multiple genuine errors the programmer can only see first the one, which may not be the one they want to work on, ...

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