Raúl Chouza

Elixir Developer at Erlang Solutions

While at a desk Raúl spends time learning about the BEAM and its ecosystem; he enjoys learning about the nuances of programming and would like programs to tell you more, especially when they go wrong.

Otherwise, he’s a recent dad; enjoys solo videogames and exploring boardgame simulations; loves trying out traditional food and having friends over dinner. Operates from Tijuana, México where he was born and lives.

https://www.chourassicpark.xyz/#Explorations

Talk:
Crossing boundaries with Gleam - from functions to runtime

As BEAM programming languages go, Gleam is a rising star that mantains the same capabilities we love from the platform but adds a slightly different route for constructing programs.

Gleam relies on type signatures and a friendly compiler that can very quickly detect some flaws in our logic. In some scenarios it will help with simple casting errors, but in others the type signatures can guide the design of our programs.

In this talk I would like to take a tabletop game and explore its implementation in Gleam, showing some of the bits and building blocks of the language plus different approaches of doing abstraction through types.

More so, once our core logic is defined we can start thinking on how it can be integrated to the BEAM runtime and how crossing this boundary looks like.

OBJECTIVE

Make the Gleam programming language a bit more familiar to the audience; show different ways we can express our domain through types; show how Gleam programs are used in your BEAM application.

AUDIENCE

Attendees interested in knowing more about Gleam; Gleam programmers looking forward to more Gleam.