I also found Elixir to sometimes be a bit too 'messy' in it syntax. A bunch of it made more sense when I understood why the choice had been made. The one that

I also found Elixir to sometimes be a bit too 'messy' in it syntax. A bunch of it made more sense when I understood why the choice had been made. The one that I still feel uncomfortable with, and where I haven't heard a proper justification, is how you can leave out [] for a keyword list when it's the last function parameter (I think they call it an options list?). It's already a bit confusing how a keyword list translates to a list of tuples, so adding that bit of sugar just further confuses things. It reminds me too much of Ruby's implicit block parameter (or whatever it's called), which I never was a fan of. Other than that Elixir might be my one of my favorite programming languages.