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.

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 ...

Functional programming languages such as Erlang and Elixir have proven to be an effective programming paradigm for such scenarios, notably in large scale telecommunications switches. In this paper we ...