Louis Pilfold

Creator of the Gleam Language

Hello! I’m Louis, the creator of the Gleam programming language, a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale! It runs on the Erlang virtual machine, as well as on JavaScript runtimes. Most importantly, it has a lovely and vibrant community, so come say hi!

Talk:
OTP and Gleam

The OTP framework gives applications written in Erlang and Elixir super-powers, but is that true for Gleam too? Can Gleam take advantage of what OTP has to offer? And how does Gleam’s strict type system work with message based concurrency in general?

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand what is capable with OTP and Gleam, and understand some of the problems and constraints that shaped the design of Gleam’s OTP libraries.

Target Audience:

  • Anyone interested in Gleam and OTP. No prior Gleam knowledge required.