Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...

At Pinterest, that company with a popular app for pinning images and other content to boards, much of the source code is written in the longstanding Python programming language. But in the past year, ...

The Elixir language has amazing built-in support for concurrency and executing asynchronous tasks as part of the Erlang OTP. It’s true: you can generally just toss tasks into the background of your ...

SmartLogic Director of Development Operations Dan Ivovich on the Canton dev team’s switch to a new primary programming language, and why Elixir is the “real deal.” At work at SmartLogic. To say that ...

Elixir language, now at version 1.0, leverages Erlang VM to produce short, fast, and maintainable code for the Web and infrastructures Developers have another option for functional programming with ...