Gleam: Multi-target projects

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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 v0.34.0 has been published. Let’s take a look at what’s new!

Multi-target projects

Gleam can compile to one of two targets: Erlang or JavaScript. Some packages may only support one of the two targets, possibly because they make use of Erlang features that are not available in JavaScript, or vice versa.

Until now if you added one of these packages as a dependency to your project it meant that your project could no longer be compiled for the other target, even if your only uses parts of the dependency that are cross-target.

This issue is now solved! The Gleam compiler now tracks target support at the level of individual expressions, so if you only use code that supports the target you are using then your project will compile successfully.

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Get the full details here: https://gleam.run//news/v0.34-multi-target-projects/