Gleam: Incremental compilation, and hello Deno!

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Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v0.26.0 has been released, let’s take a look at what’s new.

Incremental compilation

A Gleam project is made of packages, typically a top level package and several dependency packages fetched by the package manager, and each package contains a collection of modules of Gleam code.

In the very early days of Gleam when the compiler was run it would compile from scratch every module in every package in the project. This was highly wasteful, especially for the dependency packages which are would not have changed at all. To tackle this inefficiency when the Gleam build tool was created it was made to compile dependency packages only once and reuse the compiled code for every following build, resulting in only the top level package being recompiled.

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Get the full details here: Incremental compilation, and hello Deno! – Gleam

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