Gleam
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Gleam, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Gleam's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience and use
- The FAQ describes Gleam as production-ready and says it is ready for mission-critical workloads.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Concurrency
- The Erlang virtual machine provides multi-core actor-based concurrency and fault-tolerant execution for Gleam programs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependency resolution
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Editor support
- The product site lists editor integrations among the built-in Gleam tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Elixir interoperability
- Gleam’s build tool can compile Elixir dependencies and source files in a Gleam project, provided Elixir is installed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Interop
- Gleam can use Erlang and Elixir code, and the build tool can compile Elixir dependencies and source files in a Gleam project.checked 11 Oct 2026
- JavaScript interoperability
- Gleam can compile to JavaScript for use in browsers or other JavaScript environments and generates TypeScript definitions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Lockfile support
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Maintenance limit
- Typically, only the latest minor version receives bug fixes and security fixes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- The project provides precompiled executables for Linux, macOS, and Windows; it also makes an effort to support Android, with a lower level of support.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Package ecosystem
- Gleam projects can use published packages written in Gleam, Erlang, or Elixir through the wider BEAM ecosystem.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Package formats
- Gleam,Erlang/rebar3,Elixir/Mixchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Packages
- Gleam projects can use published packages written in Gleam, Erlang, or Elixir.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Private registry auth
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Production use
- The FAQ describes Gleam as production-ready and says it is ready for mission-critical workloads.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Runtime
- Gleam runs on the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Runtime targets
- Gleam compiles for the Erlang and JavaScript runtimes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- Gleam’s documentation includes a guide to creating a software bill of materials for Gleam projects using the OSS Review Toolkit.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security guidance
- The documentation includes a guide to generating a software bill of materials for a Gleam project using the OSS Review Toolkit.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security updates
- The compatibility reference says bug fixes and security fixes typically go only to the latest minor version.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser learning
- The language tour is an in-browser interactive introduction that teaches the whole language.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- Gleam provides precompiled executables for Linux, macOS, and Windows on aarch64 and x86_64; Android is listed among operating systems it makes an effort to support.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site footer credits Louis Pilfold; the opened pages do not state a headquarters or founding year.checked 11 Oct 2026
