How a combination of language, architecture and ecosystem lead to more maintainable code and a more enjoyable experience.

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This post introduces OmniMessage, a tool built in Gleam designed to solve client-server state synchronization issues. It elaborates on how Gleam, a functional language with C-style syntax, along with Lustre, its major frontend framework, offer an exceptional developer experience. The post demonstrates how to build a chat application using Lustre's Model-View-Update (MVU) architecture and explains how OmniMessage extends Lustre to provide a seamless client-server state management solution. OmniMessage combines client, server, and hybrid state management for efficient and maintainable code.

Gleam's Lustre is Frontend Development's Endgame

<p>The problem with Elm, Reason/ReScript and PureScript isn’t the lack of C-style. I would argue its their tooling and ecosystem, and gleam’s Lustre seem to have same issues:</p>
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<li>It’s hard to integrate their compilers in the bundlers, CI/CD of existing tools;</li>
<li>Almost no editor support, no code suggestions and even highlight;</li>
<li>Not enough documentation, examples and articles;</li>
<li>Almost inexistent ecosystem, or lack of interop with JS;</li>
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