This video was recorded at Code Mesh LDN 19 - http://bit.ly/37xc3Nr Get involved in Code Sync's next conference - http://bit.ly/2Mcm4aS --- GLEAM: LEAN BEAM TYPING MACHINE by Louis Pilfold THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS: Strong Typing Propaganda TALK LEVEL: Beginner ABSTRACT With their impressive concurrency features and robust approach to handling failure, it is a joy to build scalable and reliable systems with BEAM languages such as Erlang and Elixir! However, all is not perfect: as codebases get larger and less familiar it becomes more difficult to make changes, with mistakes creating bugs that test out runtime resilience and make pagers ring in the middle of the night. In this talk, Louis introduces Gleam, a new language that takes inspiration from strongly typed languages such as Haskell, Rust and Elm to help BEAM programmers tackle these problems. We'll take a look at what Gleam offers, how it's made, and how it complements and interoperates with other BEAM languages. Lastly, we'll take a peek at what's planned for Gleam and how people can get involved with the language and the community. Slides & full abstract: https://codesync.global/speaker/louis-pilfold/ --- THE SPEAKER - LOUIS PILFOLD Author of Gleam, Elixir contributor Louis is an enthusiastic, jack-of-all-trades software engineer who writes code in many languages, some of which don’t even exist yet! A firm believer in open source, he maintains and contributes to many open source projects in the Erlang ecosystem and beyond. Professionally Louis is bringing the world’s largest building society to the cloud as part of the Nationwide Digital Accelerator Platform and is removing the pain from advertising usage management as the founder of Waive Hello. Unprofessionally Louis is collecting terrible dance music and wearing shoes with toes. Professionally Louis is bringing the world’s largest building society to the cloud as part of the Nationwide Digital Accelerator Platform, and is removing the pain from advertising usage management as founder of Waive Hello. Unprofessionally Louis is collecting terrible dance music and wearing shoes with toes. More on Louis Pilfold: https://codesync.global/speaker/louis-pilfold/ --- CODE SYNC & CODE MESH LDN 19 Code Mesh LDN is powered by Code Sync. Code Mesh LDN 19 was sponsored by WhatsApp, Microsoft, Erlang Solutions, Juxt, aeternity, Duffel, and IOHK. CODE SYNC Website: www.codesync.global Twitter: www.twitter.com/CodeMeshIO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CodeSyncGlobal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-sync/ Mail: info at codesync.global #StronglyTyped #Gleam #Elixir