Introducing the Gleam package index

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Gleam is a member of the BEAM family of languages, alongside Erlang, Elixir, and others. As such Gleam packages are distributed on Hex.pm, the package manager for the BEAM ecosystem. Hex provides an excellent experience, but up until now there has been one small problem: discovering Gleam packages.

There are thousands of packages on Hex, and while Gleam projects can use packages written in Erlang or Elixir, most of the time we want to use packages that are either written in Gleam or already have Gleam bindings. Hex does not currently provide a way to search by language, so finding these packages is more difficult than it should be.

To solve this problem we have created the Gleam package index, a website for exploring the Gleam subset of the Hex repository. ✨

Today it provides a list of all the Gleam packages on Hex as well as a text search, and future we could addd fancy Gleam specific...

Get the full details here: Introducing the Gleam package index – Gleam

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