Gleam: Introducing use expressions!

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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 v0.25.0 has been released, featuring a long-awaited new feature: use expressions.

The motivation

Two of Gleam’s main goals are to be easy to learn and easy to work with. In aid of these goals Gleam the language is designed to be as small and consistent as possible, drawing inspiration from other languages such as Elm, Go, and Lua.

Because of this Gleam lacks exceptions, macros, type classes, early returns, and a variety of other features, instead going all-in with just first-class-functions and pattern matching. All flow control in Gleam programs is explicit and all functionality is built from data being passed to and returned from functions.

This small set of tools works well for making Gleam code approachable but has one irritation: ...

Get the full details here: Introducing use expressions! – Gleam

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