We Rewrote Our Startup from PHP to Gleam in 3 Weeks
36 points by kamila
36 points by kamila
Exciting to see new Gleam production uses pop up! Great writeup :)
I hadn't heard of this language before, so I followed the tour link at the bottom of the post
Gleam has no null,
Bless them
Division by zero will not overflow, but is instead defined to be zero.
Welp, I didn't see that one coming
It's a very odd thing to do in a general purpose programming language. AFAIK, some proof assistants take that route, with the rationale that you are supposed to prove that the denominator can't be zero to begin with. I wonder how Gleam justifies that.
Not sure if original author will read this, but I'm curious which library they used for the backend http routing etc.