# Gleam's Design and Compiler - with creator Louis Pilfold

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Published: 2026-01-10T03:20:30+00:00
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## Resource

Gleam programming language creator Louis Pilfold talks with Richard about Gleam's design and various challenges that came up when implementing its compiler. - Gleam Language - https://gleam.run - Erlang Language - https://www.erlang.org - Elixir Language - https://elixir-lang.org - Roc Language - https://www.roc-lang.org - Hadoukenify https://github.com/reibitto/hadoukenify - presumably based on https://twitter.com/dr4goonis/status/476617165463105536 - "Let-generalization: Let's not?" by Ayaz Hafiz - https://github.com/roc-lang/rfcs/blob/e4f05480ed96136395bb466bf5c241e42100bf66/0010-let-generalization-lets-not.md - "Let Should Not Be Generalised" by Simon Peyton Jones, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, and Tom Schrijvers - https://simon.peytonjones.org/let-generalised/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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