Gleam Gathering 2026
Posted4 months agoActive4 months ago
gleamgathering.comTechstory
excitedpositive
Debate
20/100
GleamProgramming LanguagesFunctional Programming
Key topics
Gleam
Programming Languages
Functional Programming
The Gleam Gathering 2026 conference is announced, sparking interest and discussion among HN users about the Gleam programming language and its features.
Snapshot generated from the HN discussion
Discussion Activity
Very active discussionFirst comment
42m
Peak period
23
0-3h
Avg / period
7
Comment distribution28 data points
Loading chart...
Based on 28 loaded comments
Key moments
- 01Story posted
Sep 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM EDT
4 months ago
Step 01 - 02First comment
Sep 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM EDT
42m after posting
Step 02 - 03Peak activity
23 comments in 0-3h
Hottest window of the conversation
Step 03 - 04Latest activity
Sep 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM EDT
4 months ago
Step 04
Generating AI Summary...
Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns
ID: 45119552Type: storyLast synced: 11/20/2025, 2:33:22 PM
Want the full context?
Jump to the original sources
Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.
Edit: On review, it seems the best description of Gleam is in the bio for the one of the presenters (which doesn't really say much about them). Apparently it's a programming language.
Maybe not every web page has to explain everything all the time?
I’ve read the entire front page. I don’t know more than that. A wonderful example of people who already know the answer writing the text. They really need a concise explanation. That said, they did very well in their explanation of benefits - the other part of a landing page - and I’d be keen to learn more.
From the conference page:
> 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.
And that sounds really intriguing. But nowhere does it explain why or how it is ‘friendly’. Erlang has a mystique and I suspect there’s a really solid niche here they’ve found.
Agree, the conference page doesn't explain Gleam at all. Perhaps they expect everyone interested in a Gleam conference to know what Gleam is. A reasonable expectation, I'd say.
Was super surprised to see this #1 on the front page just now. Really makes you wonder.
Which industry?
Either way, I'm not sure whether Gleam is used much by "the industry".
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mfO821E7sE
[1] https://gleam.run/sponsor/
Gleam is interesting because it's the first statically typed language for Erlang VM, other languages for it can have gradual typing and type hints (TypeScript-style), but under the hood they are still dynamic.
The team behind it cares about adoption so they try to do many things around the language right: they have a compiler, a package manager, a code formatter, an LSP server. So, while the developer experience may seem somewhat rough you still get a feeling of maturity. Gleam doesn't feel like someone's experiment or a toy, but rather like a language that will be around and actively developed for decades.