I am studying Elixir/Phoenix, and I am paralleling this with LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang), a lisp front end to the Erlang compiler, created by Robert Virding, co-

I am studying Elixir/Phoenix, and I am paralleling this with LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang), a lisp front end to the Erlang compiler, created by Robert Virding, co-creator of Erlang. It seems like Elixir has the lion's share of popularity for the foreseeable future, but there are some differences to the approaches taken between the two besides syntax, and I am not choosing for work, since I do not make my living coding. See this response by Robert on being able to change the meaning of the Elixir constructs, but not actually add new functions, operators, etc... as can be done with a lisp, and therefore LFE [1]. I am also excited about how Pony for concurrency and messaging may address similar solutions[2]. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lisp-flavoured-erlang/ensAkzcEDQQ [2] http://www.ponylang.org/