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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.

The company’s Cursor product, which can autocomplete programming code, helped the start-up draw a $2.5 billion valuation. By Michael J. de la Merced Anysphere, whose Cursor software uses ...