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The Next Version of Curling IO

giacomocava — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://curling.io/blog/the-next-version-of-curling-io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046498

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by giacomocava in "Testing Can Be Fun, Actually"

giacomocava — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:30:19 +0000

Thanks!!

New comment by giacomocava in "The Gleam Programming Language"

giacomocava — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:49:06 +0000

There’s no “unknown” or “any” in Gleam, it’s not possible to cheat the type system that way

New comment by giacomocava in "You Don't Need an ORM [video]"

giacomocava — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:23:52 +0000

Speaker here! I'm really happy about this talk, I hope people enjoy it as much as I enjoyed delivering it :)

New comment by giacomocava in "No room for error – A case study of Gleam in production at Uncover"

giacomocava — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:02:19 +0000

“We wouldn't be using Gleam if it wasn't a safe, sensible - almost boring - choice.” - I think this has become one of my new favourite quotes

New comment by giacomocava in "We Rewrote Our Startup from PHP to Gleam in 3 Weeks"

giacomocava — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:52:56 +0000

Exciting to see new Gleam production uses pop up! Great writeup :)

New comment by giacomocava in "Fixing my gripes with GitHub using Gleam and a Raspberry Pi"

giacomocava — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:37:17 +0000

I have to say, it's been great for hosting my little server! I ssh into it to code using Helix and it's been really good at compiling Gleam and running the language server as well :)

New comment by giacomocava in "Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand"

giacomocava — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:57:02 +0000

Amazing to hear success stories of Gleam in production! Running on the beam really feels like a super power

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.12"

giacomocava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:02:00 +0000

Omg yes, pattern matching is such an amazing feature I miss it dearly in languages that don't have it!

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.11 Released"

giacomocava — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:42:54 +0000

Implementing the decision tree optimisation was such a rewarding process, worth every minute I spent head scratching!

New comment by giacomocava in "Hyper Typing"

giacomocava — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:28:50 +0000

Gleam is great too!

Lustre v5.0.0 Released

giacomocava — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:44:50 +0000

Article URL: https://hexdocs.pm/lustre/announcements/2025-04-19.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43737558

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Supercharge your Tests with Snapshot Testing [video]

giacomocava — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpakV96jeRk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702734

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.10.0 Released"

giacomocava — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:21:47 +0000

> the language server (which is included within the gleam binary) now provides the "find references" feature

This was my #1 most wanted feature, I’m so grateful to Surya for implementing it, he’s amazing!!

New comment by giacomocava in "A Code Centric Journey into the Gleam Language YOW 2024"

giacomocava — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:25:20 +0000

Thank you! Yeah guides and documentation will be a big focus for the core team this year :)

A Code Centric Journey into the Gleam Language YOW 2024

giacomocava — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPIiHCId0s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373313

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.9"

giacomocava — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:09:52 +0000

print debugging is the best debugging <3 Thank you for the kind comment!!

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.9"

giacomocava — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:36:03 +0000

The language server has been improving at such a fast pace it's hard to keep up! Soon I'll be out of code actions to implement

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam v1.9"

giacomocava — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:35:12 +0000

All the pain to get echo working was 100% worth it! What a great release

New comment by giacomocava in "Gleam Is Pragmatic"

giacomocava — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:35:31 +0000

> Could you say something about the cases where you did need to write Erlang code?

Sure! For one of my most used packages (https://github.com/giacomocavalieri/birdie) I needed to get the terminal width to display a nice output, that has to be implemented using FFI based on the specific runtime (erlang or js) so I had to write it in Erlang, that was just a couple of lines of code.

But now there's a Gleam package to do it, so if I were to rewrite it today I wouldn't even need to write Erlang for that and could just use that!

> What kind of cases?

Usually it is when you need some functionality that has to rely on specific things from the runtime (like IO operations, actors on the BEAM, async on the JS target, ...) and there's no package to do it already. Most of the common things (like file system operations and such) are already covered

> Were you already proficient in Erlang and its ecosystem?

Not at all :) I knew very little about Erlang (basically nothing behind the syntax), Gleam was my introduction to the BEAM ecosystem and it has worked out great so far!

Hope this is helpful, happy to share my experience here