[HN Gopher] Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable
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       Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 72 points
       Date   : 2026-03-02 16:20 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | mmcclure wrote:
       | This is an interesting writeup, albeit not quite what I was
       | hoping for. I love Elixir and have been following Gleam for a
       | while now, so I clicked through hoping this was talking about
       | Gleam baking this into their ecosystem a bit better. I was a
       | little disappointed to see it's ultimately talking about how to
       | build a Gleam project and then use the resulting build ecosystem
       | to create a binary (Gleam -> JS -> JS build tool, or Gleam ->
       | escript -> elixir-burrito).
       | 
       | It would have been interesting to see some high level commentary
       | from the author on the results of each one on top of the general
       | workflow. Build time, binary size, startup time, whatever.
        
       | lerp-io wrote:
       | bUn Is NoT "FaSTeR" tHan NoDe #5732368444
        
       | tbeseda wrote:
       | ratio of upvotes to comments is oddly high...
        
       | sltr wrote:
       | I did it with Tauri. ~14MB Windows, macOS, and Linux exe, browser
       | app, iOS, and Android.
       | 
       | https://code.slater.dev/doug/praylist/
        
       | 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
       | I am theoretically in love with Gleam - it ticks so many boxes.
       | However, I really want to be able to make CLI
       | applications...packaging up JS is not it.
       | 
       | I saw there is an early stage WASM project[0] which has move
       | hopeful. Performance is not a requirement - equivalent to Python
       | is totally fine, I just want that beautiful Gleam syntax.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/gertvv/gl_wasm
        
       | bbkane wrote:
       | Rightly or wrongly, I'd like to see Gleam as a Go competitor for
       | Web apps and CLI apps.
       | 
       | Unfortunately, easy cross-compilation to relatively static
       | binaries is a "must" for me. Now that Go gives it to me, I won't
       | really entertain a competitor that doesn't provide a "static
       | build" option.
       | 
       | So I'm glad to see this exists, even though it looks pretty
       | janky!
        
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