Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.19.0 has been published, so let's go over what's new. ## A new compilation target Over the last few months Giacomo Cavalieri has entirely rewritten Gleam's Erlang code generator that has an entirely different design, and most notably, outputs a different format. Previously Gleam generated Erlang source code, now it generates Erlang abstract forms. "Erlang abstract forms" is an intermediate representation used by the Erlang compiler. It is a metadata-annotated tree that represents…