You should hear Chris McCord (Phoenix author) talk sometime -- he is extremely wary of sprawling design in a way that might please you. I came to Elixir from S

You should hear Chris McCord (Phoenix author) talk sometime -- he is extremely wary of sprawling design in a way that might please you. I came to Elixir from Scala but also having a Rails background. I was quite sick of Railsy magic, because I'd gone deep with the Ruby metacrap and I got to taste the other edge of the sword. Elixir was a breath of fresh air. If you enjoy concurrent programming with nice syntax and few surprises, you might end up liking it. Elixir is basically Erlang with modern syntax and vastly improved tooling.