You can't escape Erlang when working in Elixir, and Elixir doesn't try exist without Erlang. Elixir tries to offer stuff that Erlang doesn't offer, and doesn'

You can't escape Erlang when working in Elixir, and Elixir doesn't try exist without Erlang. Elixir tries to offer stuff that Erlang doesn't offer, and doesn't want to offer, including: anonymous functions, more flexible macros, variable reassignment (a=a+1), better string handling, polymorphism (via protocols), etc.