Functional programming can offer a more productive style of software development, but it takes some getting used to. With the functional paradigm, which is enabled in languages like Haskell, Scala, ...

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 ...

In my first job out of college, I was assigned the task of rewriting the autocomplete feature of a search page. The original code, entombed in a decrepit codebase, was a nauseating monstrosity that ...