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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Picking a language
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## Picking a language
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Every semester my college assigns us a major project. This usually meant coming up
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with a startup concept or designing a website in Figma, but we never got to
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all that work while carefully checking for every `exception` or `null` value.
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*I wanted to try something different*
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Enter Gleam
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## Enter Gleam
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```gleam
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pub fn main() -> Nil {
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ecosystem, I wanted to give this new language a try. It's syntax is simple,
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the community is friendly and the language is incredibly small.
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### [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Errors as values
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### Errors as values
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One of the main reasons why I went with Gleam was their approach to *error handling*.
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Errors in Gleam are treated as _values_ you can return from any function.
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}
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```
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### [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Pattern matching
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### Pattern matching
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Being able to build custom error types pairs really well with
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Gleam's *pattern matching*. You can define it at the top level scope and easily `switch`
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{.tip}
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> The compiler even _warns_ you when you're missing one or more branches!
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Handling HTTP Requests
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## Handling HTTP Requests
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For the http server, I used [mist](https://hexdocs.pm/mist) paired
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with [wisp](https://hexdocs.pm/wisp) for the web framework. Setting up the
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Working with SQL
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## Working with SQL
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I'm really not a fan of using regular strings to store SQL queries,
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there's no *autocomplete*, no *syntax highlighting*, no *linting* from my editor.
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Conclusion
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## Conclusion
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This was my first time building a backend project, and if it didn't work as expected,
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the whole group would be affected. Thankfully we ran into zero runtime errors so far,
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} FastFetch
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## FastFetch
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- [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} OS: Arch Linux x86_64
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- [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} DE: KDE Plasma
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- [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Terminal Font: Maple Mono NF
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- [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Shell: Fish
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## [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} Software
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## Software
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- [ ]{.nf aria-hidden=true} [Lazyvim](https://www.lazyvim.org/): Modal terminal
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code editor.