Core Team Panel - Gleam Gathering 2026
In the Gleam Gathering 2026 core team panel, the team outlined key milestones for the Gleam language. The upcoming v2.0 release, expected in late 2026, will feature enhanced type inference, a revamped standard library, and a new package manager called 'gleam_pm' with built-in dependency auditing. The panel noted that Gleam's package ecosystem has grown to over 1,200 packages, with a 40% increase in contributions from the community in the past year. They also discussed the language's increasing use in production, particularly for web backends, citing examples from companies like Fly.io and Supabase. The panel emphasized stability and backward compatibility as priorities for v2.0, with a beta expected in Q3 2026.
Gleam v2.0 will bring major improvements for developers building reliable web backends.