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.

One problem: to live there, you have to learn to speak a language so esoteric and weird, it’s just not worth it. “The Elixir programming language was the first step in making the world of ...

Expanding your programming repertoire to include some of the newer, emerging programming languages such as Elixir could really give you an edge in the technology sector.