> if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang. After spending a few months with Elixir (at least in my case), you pretty much DO know Erlang. You just don't pref

> if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang. After spending a few months with Elixir (at least in my case), you pretty much DO know Erlang. You just don't prefer to work in it. ;) I mean, the easy interop is right there, the semantics are (especially with OTP) nearly identical, you often call into Erlang, the data structures are almost the same, but you just get a heck of a lot more out of the box, even simple design decisions like "the first argument to a function is always the main thing being acted upon" have tremendous repercussions such as enabling the lovely |> transformation operator (from F# and OCaml). You get a more sane treatment of strings, you get "true" macros, you get great tooling (while still being able to take advantage of FABULOUS Erlang tooling like :observer.start() )... Elixir complements Erlang quite nicely IMHO. And if my best guess is correct, Elixir will take Erlang into more places than it can currently imagine...