Since I learned Erlang first and I really like it I have no issues with its syntax. I do not even understand people complaining about it. Elixir is just Ruby(is

Since I learned Erlang first and I really like it I have no issues with its syntax. I do not even understand people complaining about it. Elixir is just Ruby(ish) syntax on the top, it does not add anything (or takes away anything) at least to me. I write a lot of F# so I think I probably like it because Elixir took some of the features from F# (or ML languages). It is nice to have a pipe operator. One piece of functionality that is nice to have is fmt. You can format your code before committing to the repo, this takes away some of the bikeshed arguments. Other than that I am not using much from Elixir. Jose is a really smart Erlang guy though. He used to hang out on IRC and StackOverflow answering Erlang questions. Straight Erlang is fine.