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Gleam and the BEAM: Type Safety Meets Erlang's Concurrency Model

An architectural guide to Gleam on the BEAM. Learn how Gleam implements type-safe actors, fault-tolerant supervision trees, and full-stack Lustre web apps.

Sachin Sharma
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Aug 1, 2026
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Gleam and the BEAM: Type Safety Meets Erlang's Concurrency Model
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An architectural guide to Gleam on the BEAM. Learn how Gleam implements type-safe actors, fault-tolerant supervision trees, and full-stack Lustre web apps.

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