To be technically correct, Elixir is compiled into "Erlang Abstract Format, which is a standard representation of an Erlang AST using Erlang terms." [1] From th

To be technically correct, Elixir is compiled into "Erlang Abstract Format, which is a standard representation of an Erlang AST using Erlang terms." [1] From there it compiles down to bytecode using Erlang tool chain. So saying that Elixir is transpiled to Erlang is incorrect: it compiles to Erlang AST. [1] https://medium.com/@fxn/how-does-elixir-compile-execute-code-c1b36c9ec8cf https://medium.com/@fxn/how-does-elixir-compile-execute-code...