First of all, Elixir's relationship to Ruby is only skin deep. The languages aren't as similar as some like to suggest, in my opinion. Personally, I like Eli

First of all, Elixir's relationship to Ruby is only skin deep. The languages aren't as similar as some like to suggest, in my opinion. Personally, I like Elixir better than Clojure because memory in the BEAM VM is isolated. The JVM uses shared memory, which has caused me issues before. I also like the tooling and build tools for Elixir a lot better. Clojure is weak in this area, I think. I like Elixir's syntax much better too. For me, it feels a lot cleaner and easier to type, but that is subjective. Regarding Rails vs. Phoenix, I cannot really speak to that. I don't do monolithic apps anymore, so I don't use Rails or Phoenix. Elixir has a library called Plug built into it that lets me easily make REST APIs for micro-services, so that is what I typically use. For me, this eliminates a lot of the issues I had with Rails.