# The Gleam Programming Language and its Creator Louis Pilfold

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038>\
**Category:** Blogs/Articles/Talks/Podcasts\
**Tags:** gleam, programming\
**Created:** [31 May 2021 01:56 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038 "2021-05-31T01:56:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [31 May 2021 01:56 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038/1 "2021-05-31T01:56:30Z")

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Read in full here:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/az_GarVoXEE/hqdefault.jpg "The Gleam Programming Language and its Creator Louis Pilfold - #InferencePodcast S1E4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az_GarVoXEE)

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**Author:** ![OvermindDL1](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/overminddl1/32/52_2.png) [@OvermindDL1](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/OvermindDL1)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2021 15:04 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038/3 "2021-06-01T15:04:58Z")

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> [@CommunityNews](#):
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> Read in full here:

How do I ‘read’ a youtube video from a terminal? Lol.

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2021 21:08 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038/4 "2021-06-01T21:08:27Z")

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> [@OvermindDL1](#):
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> How do I ‘read’ a youtube video from a terminal? Lol.

I don’t think you can, you’ll have to watch it on your phone ODL 😃

I listened to it in the background the other day and it was a nice interview (also cool that Michele got to hear of Gleam via the Elixir Forum 🕶). You’d probably find it quite interesting ODL - Louis mentions a couple of books that he recommends for anyone interested in creating a language (I will cross post them some point as the topic has come up before I am sure) and he also said the Gleam compiler was rewritten in… Rust!

_I also wish I could grow a moustache like @lpil’s!_

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**Author:** ![DevotionGeo](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/devotiongeo/32/1140_2.png) [@DevotionGeo](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/DevotionGeo)\
**Post date:** [3 June 2021 08:02 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038/5 "2021-06-03T08:02:57Z")

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> [@AstonJ](#):
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> he also said the Gleam compiler was rewritten in… Rust!

I thought it was written in Rust right from the start.

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [3 June 2021 13:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/the-gleam-programming-language-and-its-creator-louis-pilfold/10038/6 "2021-06-03T13:06:46Z")

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I might have misheard, but I’m sure he said he started building it in Erlang first…