I too am obsessed with Elixir and LFE, being a Lisper. I am currently learning both to see, if I will choose one, or just learn and use both. This dialogue betw

I too am obsessed with Elixir and LFE, being a Lisper. I am currently learning both to see, if I will choose one, or just learn and use both. This dialogue between Jose Valim (creator of Elixir) and Robert Virding (originally worked on the Erlang team, and creator of LFE) has some interesting contrastting points [1]. Summary: Elixir cannot define new syntax in the true Lisp sense, while LFE can. Elixir has improved the interface to the Erlang libraries, while LFE uses them "straight" from Erlang. I think Elixir has more momentum due to the resurgence of interest in the BEAM, and the Ruby-like syntax and Ruby's and ROR's already-large community. I've never chose a language for popularity, hence why I still use Lisp. I do like Elixir and LFE a lot. Choices... [1] - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lisp-flavoured-erlang/ensAkzcEDQQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lisp-flavoured-erlan...