Gleam Programming Language

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Thank you!
we're 100% supported by people like you and sponsors like Lambda Class, Williams & Holmes and Black Hammer Consulting
1650 new Exercism students joined, and we got 103798 new exercise solutions submitted
our discord gained 1489 new members: that's 8210 total!
there were 21 Gleam talks at 9 conferences and many more at meetups, webinars and internal presentations
and we got 2455 new GitHub stars
You downloaded the standard library 621354 times
we introduced 245 new features + 26 language server new code actions
and 12 Gleam releases
2025 was a year with: 755 new packages, 3815 new releases, 311 new release owners
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New Sponsor: Black Hammer Consulting
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Headline: Gleam in productionQuote:“The rewrite started as an experiment, never meant to actually replace the existing code. It went so well that we had no reason not to go forward with it. And secondly, the switch to Gleam made our code feel more robust. The gains in productivity from switching were already visible.”source: radical-elements.com all on navy background, there's a tiny pink starfish in the bottom right corner
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For us, Gleam is not just an alternative to JS, it’s a whole different way to write frontend and backend. The whole team can contribute, and even junior developers love it. Gleam is the best choice we made.
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