> I wonder if that's actually a handicap because the syntax similarities would cause them to make the wrong assumptions about how Elixir works. In my experienc

> I wonder if that's actually a handicap because the syntax similarities would cause them to make the wrong assumptions about how Elixir works. In my experience, yup. Most Ruby devs, my self included before playing with Elixir, are not accustomed to dealing with concurrency. They try to make everything synchronous, and it goes downhill from there.