Isaac Harris-Holt

The Glambassador

Isaac is a recent functional programming convert (coming from a Python and data engineering background) and a YouTube creator producing content around the Gleam programming language.

He lives between London and San Francisco, which is has mostly been great! He just regrets that he had to leave his hat collection behind when coming to America.

https://ihh.dev

Talk:
Jumping on the Bandwagon: How I ended up writing Gleam for a living

Level: Introductory and overview

Diving into a new language can be pretty daunting. Falling into a new language by accident? That’s a completely different story.

This talk will discuss how a series of unexpected events led to a career in Gleam, highlighting the lessons learned along the way, Gleam’s strengths - and its pitfalls - and how to write production-ready Gleam code.

OBJECTIVES:

  • Talk about my journey from Python, TypeScript etc. to Gleam
  • Show that Gleam has a very low barrier to entry
  • Demonstrate Gleam’s production readiness
  • Show how my Gleam code has evolved over time, and talk about some Gleam best practices

AUDIENCE: The BEAM-curious or the existing BEAMers who are new to Gleam and want to see how they could progress to being true Gleamlins.