Elixir has a cleaner syntax that I find a lot easier to read and work with (subjective), and it has powerful macro capabilities that make it possible to do meta

Elixir has a cleaner syntax that I find a lot easier to read and work with (subjective), and it has powerful macro capabilities that make it possible to do metaprogramming (objective). There's nothing "magic" about Elixir syntax, and it is easy to interface with Erlang libraries.