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 ...

Overview: Functional programming prevents unintended data changes, reducing errors in large systems.Pure functions improve testing accuracy because outputs depe ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional programming is ...

Legacy tech may have carried eCommerce businesses this far, but it wasn’t designed for today’s speed, complexity, and especially customer expectations. What used to be manageable (running a single ...