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 ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...