> They have the same data-types (with the same names and even the same syntax for almost all of them), As someone who mostly has just used Erlang, but has look

> They have the same data-types (with the same names and even the same syntax for almost all of them), As someone who mostly has just used Erlang, but has looked at Elixir some, I think one of the things I appreciate about Elixir is some of the Erlang warts that you've managed to work around, like having strings be Erlang binaries.