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Time to wrap up the year, let’s look at some numbers 🤓 But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025! Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐

Tristan Sloughter is one of the most impactful maintainers in the BEAM world. Everyone writing Elixir, Erlang, or Gleam has greatly benefitted from his work, without a doubt. I'm now sponsoring him, and if you're a BEAMer I think you should too! github.com/sponsors/tsl...

2025 has been an incredible year for Gleam adoption, but sadly not for funding, with GitHub sponsorship dropping ~10%. It's not a disaster as we're careful with finances, but it's not a good trend. How can we do better at turning users into supporters? A sufficiently funded ecosystem benefits all!

Time to get to know you better! The Gleam Developer Survey 2025 is open now: developer-survey.gleam.run Help us understand where the Gleam community and ecosystem are today: how people are using the language, what’s working well and what still needs some polishing.

At very short notice I'm going to Paris tomorrow, and I'll be staying there for a couple of days. Any Gleamlins or other cool people in Paris want to meet up on Saturday or Sunday?

anyway use Gleam

We used a lot of physical maps before the internet and instead of tossing them all, I haven’t used wrapping paper for over a decade.

At very short notice I'm going to Paris tomorrow, and I'll be staying there for a couple of days. Any Gleamlins or other cool people in Paris want to meet up on Saturday or Sunday?

Gleam v1.14.0 is out now! Merry Christmas everyone! 🎁 gleam.run/news/the-hap...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! I've made a video covering all the changes in Gleam 1.14 along with visual code examples, if that's more your cup of tea: youtu.be/Ux9mT-XULwM Enjoy!

Many of you will have started your christmas breaks, but trust me, this 30mins is worth it. @sachajudd.com's closing from #FFConf is now live. It's not your usual nostalgia/look at what it was, but real meaty inspiration as to what we can do now. Treat yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-s...

Cheeky Friday #FFConf talk watch? Perhaps @gearsco.de on his personal journey "6 to 16: A child's programming journey" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF9...

Gleam v1.14.0-rc2 is out for testing github.com/gleam-lang/g...

The recording of my #ffconf talk is out! I'm really happy with how it turned out and I think others enjoyed it too. Go watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF9...

I wrote another article! Bit arrays are a really powerful feature of Gleam, but they can be quite difficult to understand as a lot of their behaviour isn't well documented and left up to experimentation. This post details all of the options and how they work. Enjoy! gearsco.de/blog/bit-arr...

what if somebody made a code forge that does *not* charge you to use your own computer

To get the government to respond to our petition calling for a National Climate Resilience Plan, we need 10,000 of you to help us. We are over halfway now! If you haven't already, please sign it and encourage others to do so as well ✒️ 🌍 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 is out for testing github.com/gleam-lang/g...

If you haven't tried this before, you should, regardless of your gender. If you have some salt lying around, that makes it even better. #tomatoesarethenewapples

Is Gleam production ready? Yes. Can you write games in Gleam? Yes. Can you buy any Gleam games on Steam? YES! 😎

We have achieved general purposity New phrase has been coined, you're welcome

I thought it had to be Sailor Swift at the end, so it rhymes

Treat yourself to a fun talk from Sergès Goma at #FFConf. It's the perfect length and happily takes the piss out of our need to join cults in the tech world! Really enjoyed this in person, she had the audience eating from the palm of her hand. 📺 Watch it now

The difficulty is ramping up! Day 8 & 9 now! twitch.tv/gearsdatapacks

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

I guess this time the game really does stop, when the stream ends.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

This is an extremely well written post, definitely recommend reading if you haven't thought much about what new age verification laws mean.

Wasn't able to stream yesterday, so today it's time for 6 and 7!

Me: I wish there were fewer evil media conglomerates News: Netflix has made a deal to acquire Warner Bros today Me: THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT

Such a cool and original idea! Love it

Day 5 now!

Time for day 4!!

New profile picture! Photo taken during my talk at @ffconf.org

Gleam is free from corporate interference and control, but that means financially we rely entirely on our sponsors! Please consider supporting Gleam, even if just a couple of dollars. Thank you! 💖 gleam.run/sponsor/

Day 3 baby!

Good luck to everyone doing Advent of Code this year! Who's doing it in Gleam? 👀

Advent of Code 2025 is 🔛! Are you doing it in Gleam? Let us know ⭐ You can also hop on our discord and join the discussion (don't worry, we keep spoilers in a separate thread) 🎄

Streaming again! Time for day 2

This is such a good talk, if a little depressing at points. Definitely recommend!

I'm streaming! twitch.tv/gearsdatapacks Advent of Code time!

malloc doesn't want to tell lexa the answer :( it keeps only giving pointers

WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,

"The rewrite took only 3 weeks. Mind that I'd never written a single line of Gleam code before that." - @lexx.gr shares how Radical Elements have rewritten their startup from PHP to Gleam ⭐ Go check the full blog post: www.radical-elements.com/minor-epipha...

The first of our #FFConf talks are live for your viewing. Set aside 30 minutes to watch Hellen Ward on "Bias in our products: The case for diversity in tech". Then evangelise at your workplace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVJ...

This is my favourite political campaign video I've seen by far