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Honestly good question. Second time Gleam marketing has showed up on front page in a few days. I’m pretty well plugged in to the state of the industry and never heard of it.

Was super surprised to see this #1 on the front page just now. Really makes you wonder.

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> I’m pretty well plugged in to the state of the industry and never heard of it.

Which industry?

Either way, I'm not sure whether Gleam is used much by "the industry".

Isn’t that my point?

Maybe so. And then you're overrating "the industry". The industry is full of people making bad technological choices...

Sorry but I have heard a lot about Gleam for at least one year. Since they had a 1.0 release and ThePrimeTime [0] Youtube channel featured it (it has 175k views as of writing, for a new programming language video that's like a number 1 hit). They are being backed by fly.io and have an impressive number of sponsors[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mfO821E7sE

[1] https://gleam.run/sponsor/

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