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title: "Single file Gleam BEAM programs with escript"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/single-file-gleam-beam-programs-with-escript-hqjxh2jmz
source_url: https://gleam.run/news/single-file-gleam-beam-programs-with-escript
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source: "Gleam"
published: 2026-06-02T13:27:44.247Z
updated: 2026-06-02T13:28:12.433Z
tags: ["gleam"]
reading_time: 15
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
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# Single file Gleam BEAM programs with escript

**[Gleam](https://daily.dev/sources/gleam)** · 15 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Gleam v1.17.0 has been released with several notable improvements. The headline feature is `gleam export escript`, a new command that compiles a Gleam project into a single portable escript file runnable on any machine with Erlang installed — analogous to JavaScript bundlers. The language server gains document highlight support (highlighting all references to a selected variable), improved record update hovering showing unchanged fields, a new 'create unknown module' code action, and several new auto-fix actions including pattern match expansion on discarded values and correct operator suggestions in guard expressions. The compiler now offers context-aware type printing in warnings, better unknown value import suggestions, and `todo` support in constant expressions. Additional improvements include `--no-print-progress` support for `gleam dev`, an outdated dependencies count summary, better monorepo Git detection for `gleam publish`, JavaScript pattern matching optimizations, and three security CVE fixes in the build tool's configuration validation.

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