As a Ruby/Rails guy, here's my experience(summary): I came to Ruby from Java, I wrote Ruby code like Java code at the start, it runs, but it is bad, once I rea

As a Ruby/Rails guy, here's my experience(summary): I came to Ruby from Java, I wrote Ruby code like Java code at the start, it runs, but it is bad, once I really learned to write Ruby code it became a billion times better. Same thing happened to Elixir, my first few lines of Elixir were very similar to Ruby, similar syntax makes this possible, but I missed the real gains from Elixir this way. There are quite a few functional programming concepts to learn, but once I finally clicked what pattern matching was all about Elixir programming went from enjoyable to amazing, if you can work functional programming concepts your way you can do a lot. That said, don't worry about it unless it is critical for your job, do your code, once all the concepts click in it gets way better, spend some time with pure Elixir, it pays off just as much as it pays to a Rails developer to understand what Ruby is all about.