It makes it easier for people to dismiss it; it actually is easier to learn. Erlang it took me two weeks to become proficient enough to write useful things, wi

It makes it easier for people to dismiss it; it actually is easier to learn. Erlang it took me two weeks to become proficient enough to write useful things, without any real FP background. That includes leveraging OTP. Even with that in place (plus a lot of Java, Javascript, some others, plus many more years of experience), it took me longer to be comfortable with Elixir, and there are still bits that surprise me or bite me (pinning a variable to match it rather than rebind it, macros, etc).