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		juped on March 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gleam v1.9 Binary is Erlangese for Vec<u8>, hope that helps

worthless-trash on March 10, 2025 [–]

There are no lifetimes in gleam though right ? or did i miss the memo.

hayleighdotdev on March 10, 2025 | | [–]

No lifetimes, absolutely no plans to add anything similar. We’re nothing like rust!

juped on March 10, 2025 | | [–]

maybe they can add them to guard against copying large binaries too much

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